A Quick Guide to Brooklyn’s Best and Most Beautiful Trees
Callery Pear Trees
These are the second best spring trees; since the 60s, they’ve been planted all over the city because, as Central Park’s website explains, the species is “tolerant of pollution and other extreme conditions such as de-icing salt and compaction—it actually seems to thrive under those conditions.” Don’t we all? A street lined with these trees, all flowering at the same time, is so gosh darn lovely that we’ll excuse their seminal smell. [photo]