It’s a worthless tree, the old boxelder in our yard. It’s beendeclining for at least ten years,bark sloughing off in places, barebranches of the crown craggy againstthe sky. Several big limbs3 broke offin a winter ice storm. Nevertheless, the tree put out newleaves in spring. It’s not situatedwhere it can drop branches on a houseor a parked car, so we’ve put offcutting it down. It’s a worthless tree, the old boxelder in our yard. It’s beendeclining for at least ten years, bark sloughing off in places, barebranches of the crown craggy againstthe sky. Several big limbs3 broke offin a winter ice storm. Nevertheless, the tree put out newleaves in spring. It’s not situatedwhere it it can drop branches on a houseor a parked car, so we’ve put offcutting it down.