Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.

On the other hand, too wide a notch means you have to drill until a week from next Tuesday to get enough dust to fill the darn thing.

“Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.

If you must have something exotic, though, consider two non-native trees: the Japanese snowbell and the yellowhorn from China.