Editing Ladd's Addition (section)

==Ecology==
The narrow streets of Ladd's Addition are lined with [[Ulmus americana|American Elm]] trees. The Save Our Elms organization inoculates the elm trees yearly against [[Dutch elm disease]].<ref name=SOE>{{cite web|title= History of Save Our Elms|url= http://www.saveourelms.org/faq.html|access-date= 2007-08-30|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071008101723/http://www.saveourelms.org/faq.html|archive-date= 2007-10-08|url-status= dead}}</ref> Each of the four smaller, diamond-shaped "circles" to the east, west, north, and south contains one of Portland's [[rose test gardens]].<ref name=Rose>{{cite web|title=Ladd's Addition Rose Garden|publisher=Portland Rose Festival Association| url= http://www.rosegardenstore.org/laddsaddition.cfm|access-date=2007-08-30}}</ref> Friends of Ladd's Addition Gardens regularly solicits money and volunteers to maintain the rose gardens.<ref name=FLAG>{{cite web| title= Friends of Ladd's Addition Gardens| url=http://www.laddsadditiongardens.com/|access-date=2007-08-30 | publisher= laddsadditiongardens.com}}</ref> Ladd named most of the streets after trees, but he named SE Ladd Avenue and SE Elliott Avenue for himself and his wife, who was born Caroline Elliott.<ref>{{cite book | last =Snyder | first =Eugene E. | title =Portland Names and Neighborhoods | publisher =Binford and Mort | date =1979 | location =Portland | pages =38 | isbn =978-0832303470}}</ref>