WETSOVER AVE., AN AVENUE OF PIN OAKS. 
Comparing the normal life of a tree with a tree surrounded 
by city improvements, one can readily see what extraordinary 
care is required to enable plant life to grow at all under such 
abnormal conditions. Normally, the roots of the tree extend 
outward from the trunk about the same distance that the 
branches spread out above leaving ample space upon which 
the rain falls; the roots extend downward to the moist strata 
that comes within a few feet of the surface. An abundance of 
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