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Were I in Selma, Alabama, I’d check out the ginkgo trees:
Brought here by a Chinese missionary in 1879, Selma’s first Gingko tree was planted in the courtyard of a cotton warehouse at Lawrence Street and Water Avenue. The tree grew to a hundred feet in height and as it grew, it became famous, making the popular “Strange As It May Seem” nationally syndicated column several decades ago.
During its years in the courtyard of Bernard Yaretzky’s cotton office, the tree produced a number of small seedlings, which were successfully transplanted all over Selma. Every Gingko in Selma has its origin in that tree.