The town boasted cobblestone streets, three-story buildings with cast-iron awnings, and a central boulevard that had a median strip planted with trees, perhaps to achieve a Parisian effect.

They are narrow, permanent strips of hardy, native, perennial grasses or shrubs planted in parallel rows to crops.

It is a strip planted with grasses (bunch grasses) and/or perennial plants, within a crop field or a garden, that fosters and provides habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and other fauna that prey on pests.

The bomb in Adhamiya exploded about 9 a.m. today, witnesses said, on a busy four-lane road divided by a dirt and concrete median strip planted with small trees.

The lanes were separated by median strips planted with Pine, Elm, and Scholar trees.

The Tuggeranong Parkway is 4 lanes wide, has a speed limit of 100 km/h and is divided variously by a concrete wall or large median strip planted with trees.