Trees in Cambridge, pictures from my 1st post. Hope you like!

Trees in Lilac Court, near central square, giving owners privacy, and looking nice.

Some of my favorite Cambridge trees; Hawthorn trees on Memorial Drive.  These babies flower white and pink every may, looking beautiful and preventing erosion on the river bank. They can also treat chronic heart failure, apparently.

Sumac tree providing shade outside the Fresh pond Community center.  

Slow release watering system used on baby trees in Cambridge.

Taking the circumference of a tree.

Old photo of an American chestnut tree. American chestnuts could grow to be 50 ft. tall. Trees were mostly harvested for their lumber, although people liked the nuts too. Think of the song lyric "Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire." Before the blight, American chestnuts made up 25% of the tree canopy in American forests. 

A Japanese chestnut. Also a tall and beautiful tree.  The U.S. forest service is working on the American Chestnut Restoration Project; an attempt to hybridize Japanese and American chestnuts to create a disease-resistant American chestnut.