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  1. DIBS – It’s only one sex of the ginko that creates the smell of feces (I forget whether it’s the male or female). Most landscapers are pretty diligent about specifying the right sex of plant. Philly screwed up, that’s why they have this problem. It is possible to have a ginko and not suffer through the dog shit problem if you get the right sex though.

  2. daveinbedstuy: for precisely that reason the city now plants only male ginkgoes, which do not fruit. The remaining female ginkgo trees are from decades ago (and, thus, are huge and drop a lot of stinky fruit).

  3. I read the NY Times economic writer’s sob story over the weekend and am infuriated. It was HIS JOB to write about the system and he still got suckered into it.

    And now he’s going to get bailed out by a book….