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Why did anyone want pear trees whose fruit is inedible and whose flowers smell bad in the first place?
by gweinberg 3y ago
Why did anyone want pear trees whose fruit is inedible and whose flowers smell bad in the first place?
- Turing_Machine 3y agoThey're dirt-cheap and grow extremely fast. Just the ticket for fly-by-night real estate developers. By the time they get big enough to cause problems, the developer is long gone, off to fleece other suckers.
- pvaldes 3y agoBecause they have a lot of convenient features. Specially that they are supernarrow in their first decades. Other traits weren't so much desirable. Inedible fruit is a desirable trait in urbanism. Not necessarily a bad thing.