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! S OF $ECEMBER THERE ARE YELLOWWOOD TREES PLANTED ALONG THE STREETS OF THE $ISTRICT OF #OLUMBIA !BOUT SIX YEARS AGO ) WAS PART OF A SUBGROUP OF FOREST ERS HERE AT THE $ISTRICTS 5RBAN &ORESTRY !DMINISTRATION 5&! TRYING TO UPDATE AND EXPAND OUR $EPARTMENT OF 4RANSPORTATIONS PLANTING LISTS FOR DIVERSITY AND UNDER WIRE TREE VARIETIES /NE OF THE FIRST TREES ) ADDED WAS YELLOWWOOD BECAUSE OF TWO TREES )D ENCOUNTERED AND REMEMBERED VIVIDLY 4HE FIRST YELLOWWOOD TREE THAT STRUCK ME WAS PLANTED 9ELLOWWOOD IS RELATIVELY PESTFREE SEEMS TO DO VERY WELL IN URBAN CONDITIONS SO LONG AS IT GETS ADEQUATE WATER AND -ICHAEL $IRR SAYS IT IS P( ADAPTABLE UP TO ABOUT )T IS HARDY IN :ONES A THROUGH B AND IS NATIVE TO EASTERN .ORTH !MERICA WHICH IS A SELLING POINT TO SOME EVEN WITH OUR CHANGING CLIMATE AND THE FACT OF VARYING URBAN MICROENVIRONMENTS 0RUNING FOR GOOD STRUCTURE SHOULD BE PERFORMED WHEN THE TREE IS YOUNG OTHERWISE IT CAN TEND TO DEVELOP MULTIPLE COMPETING LEADERS 0RUNING IS RECOMMENDED IN THE SUMMER RATHER THAN SPRING OR FALL DUE TO ITS TENDENCY TOWARDS EXCESSIVE SAP BLEEDING OR WEEPING #ORNELLS 5RBAN (ORTICULTURE )NSTITUTE SAYS YELLOWWOOD IS EASY TO TRANSPLANT "" OR UNDER INCH MM CALIPER BARE ROOT )N OUR COMMON SEARCH FOR GREATER STREET TREE DIVERSITY ) WOULD CONSIDER THIS TREE WITH CONFIDENCE AND PLEASURE —Emily Hamilton, City Environmental Technician and Landscape Reviewer, Surrey, British Columbia Ê>ÌÕÀiÊÞiÜÜ`ÊëiViÊLÞÊÞÊ>ÌÊ AS PART OF THE FORMAL ROSE AND CUTTING GARDEN OF *OHN 1UINCY !DAMSS HOME IN 1UINCY -ASSACHUSETTS ) WAS WORKING AT THE TIME FOR THE .ATIONAL 0ARK 3ERVICE AND WITH 2OBERT -C+ENZIE THE HEAD GARDENER AT THE *OHN 1 !DAMS .ATIONAL (ISTORIC 0ARK 4HIS TREE WAS TRULY THE ANCHOR OF THE GARDEN AND WAS FOREVER BURNED IN MY MEMORY ESPECIALLY HOW IT LOOKED IN FULL BLOOM )T IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN PLANTED BY *1 !DAMS AND HIS WIFE IN AS A MEMORIAL TREE 4HE OTHER UNFORGET TABLE TREE WAS A HIDDEN YELLOWWOOD ON THE CAMPUS OF .ORTHEASTERN 5NIVERSITY WHERE THIS SPECIMEN HELPED CHEER ME DURING THE DOLDRUMS OF CAMPUS LIFE 7HEN ) ADDED YELLOWWOOD TO OUR PLANTING LIST AS A DESIR ABLE TREE ONE OF MY THOUGHTS WAS THAT BECAUSE ITS A LEGUME YELLOWWOOD MIGHT BE A GOOD TREE TO TRY IN POOR SOIL CONDITIONS BUT ACCORDING TO -ICHAEL $IRR THIS IS NOT THE CASE (OWEVER WE AT THE 5&! BELIEVE IT SERVES AS A GREAT MEDIUM SIZED NATIVE TREE FOR UNDER WIRES IT HAS A BROAD ROUNDED CANOPY FORM BUT THE BRANCHING TENDS TO LEND TO A 6SHAPED CROWN THAT IS PROMISING FOR UNDERWIRE SITUATIONS )T DOES HAVE WEAK BRANCHING TO CONSIDER )N THE PAST TWO PLANTING SEASONS 5&! INCREASED ITS PLANT ING VOLUME TO APPROXIMATELY INDIVIDUALS OF VARIOUS SPECIES UP FROM A STANDARD TREES THREE YEARS AGO )N WE PLANTED MORE YELLOWWOOD THAN ANY OTHER TREE FOR THE STREET PLANTING SEASON SURPASSING OAK CHOKECHERRY MAPLE BLACK GUM AND DAWN REDWOOD 4HUS FAR THE MAJORITY OF THE DELIVERED YELLOWWOODS WERE PLANTED EAST OF THE !NACOSTIA 2IVER IN 7ARDS ÜÜÜ°ÕÀL>vÀiÃÌÀÞ°V