ailanthus

• “I am sure I told you that they would not live here in the open air, but they do in China; and the ailanthus is a Chinese tree.”

  Among the Trees at Elmridge

• “A giant ailanthus tree, at least fifty feet tall, was growing up right between the derelict seats.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Lampshade

• “People walking their dogs go by or wait while their inquisitive pets sniff around the ailanthus in front of the house.”

  David Finkle: Stooping to the Highest Level

• “I was hoping to find a crack in the pavement where my ailanthus of a poem could take root.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE ANTHOLOGIST

• “I crossed a vacant lot, a parking lot filled with cinders and broken glass and longed for an ailanthus tree to break the prison-gray walls and ground all around.”

  All the Way to Heaven is Heaven

• “When I read how many thousands of dollars a city like New York has to spend to keep underground water pipes free of ailanthus, ginko, and sycamore roots, I cannot help but give a little cheer.”

  Nature & Environment

• “They saw the ailanthus jungle and the smash heap of mortified cars and they looked at the six-story slab of painted angels with streamers rippled above their cherub heads.”

  Simon & Schuster: Underworld

• “Close-set buildings, laundry lines, slant light, patches of weeds, a few would-be gardens and bare ailanthus trees and the fire escapes that fixed fretwork patterns of light and shade on the walls and paved surfaces.”

  Simon & Schuster: Underworld

• “Edgar looked out a window and saw someone moving among the poplars and ailanthus trees in the most overgrown part of the rubbled lots.”

  Simon & Schuster: Underworld

• “But she has a huge pine, a wild, rambling rose bush that hasn't been pruned in decades, weed trees like ailanthus, walnut, and a scrubby little maple, and she never mows.”

  Every cloud has a silver lining.

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