How an American gangster plants a tree
In 1939, Al Capone contracted syphilis and commandeered an entire floor of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for about a week.
In thanks, he “planted” two Weeping Cherry Trees.
The remaining 70-year-old tree split in two Saturday and is going to need professional care to survive.
“I can’t care if Capone was infamous or just famous, that tree he gave us was like a still-life fireworks display,” said passerby Stephen Alexander to The Baltimore Sun. “And I wonder what’s going to happen to all that nice cherry wood.”
If you missed other editions in the ‘How (so & so) plant a tree” series: How Hollywood stars plant a tree; How President Obama plants a tree; How a prince plants a tree; and How an engineer plants a tree.
–Toshio Suzuki
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