Shorter Winters Mean Weeping Elm Has Less Time to Prepare Its Annual Discourse

As winters in New York City are expected to grow shorter, Prospect Park horticultural experts are concerned that the park’s Weeping Camperdown Elm will not have the dormant time needed to fully ruminate on its annual discourse.

The notably gnarled tree, located for 145 years near the Audubon Boat House, typically wakes from its winter’s meditation in mid-March having prepared a lengthy public statement describing its insights into the nature of reality.

“We worry that if the Camperdown doesn’t have enough time to remain deeply internal,” said Alan MacCormaic, Prospect Park Director of Gaelic Flora, “it may not find insight to share.” That would be a tremendous loss to the park’s Druids, who base their studies for the coming year on the Camperdown’s revealed topics, as well as to many of the Faerie clans that build their festival calendar around the tree’s revelations.

“It’s yet another example of biodiversity lost to global climate change,” added  MacCraic, “After 145 years, we’re just not sure our dear Camperdown can adapt its ways.”