41.   And he is still pruning trees with shears operated by compressed air.

42.   And Macdonald, back at the university, prays that the scrawny tree with needles of gold will grow straight and true.

43.   Another heat-sickened man was left in the uncertain shade of a mesquite tree with nothing but two bottles of tequila.

44.   Ant acacia trees with their ferocious red soldiers.

45.   Angell trims the lower branches of her tree with stuffed or soft ornaments.

46.   Any tree with that much interest for a woodpecker is a tree that is already in trouble for other reasons.

47.   As with mitochondrial DNA, plotting these random mutations yields a tree with the oldest mutation at the trunk and younger mutations forming successive branches.

48.   Battery Park gardeners never wrap a newly planted tree with burlap, because it holds urine next to the bark.

49.   Before he finishes the sentence, Cox is motioning toward his Chinese parasol tree with leaves that make it look like a fancy umbrella.

50.   Big killer trees with branches shaped like fangs, just waiting to claw and clutch the tender rayon hide of our pig-shaped aircraft.