A Tree That Was Once the Suburban Ideal Has Morphed Into an Unstoppable Villain
CLEMSON, S.C. -- In the distance, beside a brick house in a tidy subdivision, the trees rose above a wooden fence, showing off all that had made the Bradford pear so alluring: They were towering and robust and, in the early spring, had white flowers that turned their limbs into perfect clouds of cotton.
Rick Rojas, New York Times