Ahh the ginkgo tree. Lovely fluttery leaves like fairies dancing with fans in their hands. All summer long these shimmering fans wave and twinkle and it’s beautiful. Like these are the artisan fairies that have crafted the most pleasing and unique type of leaf, and they want everyone to join in their revelry and be happy.
Then in the fall these fairies paint each fan an electric yellow, a bright sign of the change of seasons. “Hey! It’s autumn! Put on your new costumes and let’s dance some more!” So they dance and dance and perhaps they imbibe a bit. And a bit more. And maybe way too much. So they become sotted and sick. And then they throw up all over the sidewalk and everyone who walks past that once majestic tree looks at the bottom of their shoes to see if they’ve stepped in dog poop and pinches their noses and walks past much much faster and then reroutes their walks so they don’t have to go past that one house with the ginkgo tree in the yard again. I hate ginkgo biloba trees.
Magrilless 
rip the sucker out by the roots!
perhaps that was a tap too hasty…sorry.
As an old plant pathology grad, we (royal we) would recommend just cutting the tree off at the root/ground line. Now cutting at root/ground level is basically the same as ripping the sucker out by those little roots, but one just sounds softer. it's as if the writer is a tad hostile because the weather is cold, temperature has dropped to the low 40's !!!!!! and it's burrrrr cold here.
The wood burner will be hot soon, we'll be warm again, so perhaps my tree/root thesis should have waited for the heat rather than taking my burrrrrrrr cold out on that poor ginkp tree.