Just below warren street tube station, by about fifty yards on the west side
of Tottenham court road, is a hotel entrance with two olive trees, one
either side of the entrance.

The are each in clay pots about two foot six or so high and three feet wide.
The trunk of the tree is nine or ten inches in diameter and the original
height of the trees have been cut down to about seven feet high.

How would that have been done? Getting what would have once been a *huge*
tree into such a pot? Is it that the spread of roots on an olive tree is
very small, so they could have dug one up and trimmed the roots and then got
it in that size of pot? I would have thought trimming the roots to that
extent on a normal tree would result in its' death.

Or would it have been grown in such a small pot, but then i find it amazing
that such a big tree would have grown in one successfully?