Friday, October 11, 2013

300 Year Old Pear Tree Survives Near the Charles River

1. George Despotes Reports.
2. In context.


1. George Despotes Reports.

The Massachusetts General Hospital publication this week has a short article about a pear tree planted in 1632 that is still producing ...

[ed. Massachusetts General Hospital is on the south side of the Charles River at the foot of the rear side of Beacon Hill in Boston. It is on the opposite side of the Charles River from Cambridge.]

2. In context.

That won't happen on public property in Cambridge.

It would be in the way of the saplings they want to be planted to make Tree City USA since Tree City USA only counts saplings and does not count the mature, excellent trees destroyed to make way for saplings.

Additionally, many carefully controlled Company Unions sound great. They run around proclaiming their independence and praising the city, and its very destructive bureaucrats, councilors and friends. Too many of them are very effective in achieving the opposite of what they claim to stand for.

But they sound great and, if you do not understand reality, you might even consider all of them meaningful.