than Yukio Ozaki. Mainly through his desire for a friendly relationship to 

 exist between the American and Japanese people, he tenaciously labored 

 to get these trees established in the Nation's Capital. 



Yukio Ozaki, born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, was a graduate of 

 Keio Gijuku (predecessor to Keio University). After graduation, he 

 became editor-in-chief of the Niigata Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper. He 

 later served as Counselor of the Foreign Office in 1897 and was appointed 

 Education Minister in 1898. After resigning as Education Minister, he was 

 elected Mayor of Tokyo in 1904. As a founder of the Japanese Parliament 

 in 1890, he was re-elected 25 consecutive times. An Ozaki Memorial Hall, 

 erected in honor of Yukio Ozaki, now stands near the National Diet 

 Building in Tokyo, Japan. In 1973, in a ceremony attended by Ryokichi 

 Minobe, the Tokyo Governor, and Alan Carter, U.S. Minister Counselor 

 in Japan, 150 dogwood trees were planted in memory of Ozaki as a 

 symbol of the friendship between Japan and the United States. The dog- 

 wood trees were presented for the ceremony by the Japan-American 

 Society of Washington, D.C. 



Flora Wambough Patterson 

 (1847-1928) 



As a mycologist (1896-1923) on the staff of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mrs. Patterson was one of the 

 scientists who reported diseases in the first shipment of cherry trees sent 

 from Japan in 1910. 



Born in Columbus, Ohio, she graduated in 1865 from Antioch College 

 with an A.B. degree and received an A.M. degree from Wesleyan College, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1883. In 1895, she received another A.M. degree from 

 the University of Iowa and studied botany and mycology at Radcliffe Col- 

 lege from 1892 to 1895. While working as an assistant in the Gray Her- 

 barium, in 1896 Mrs. Patterson was hired by the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture as an assistant pathologist. Later she was placed in charge of 

 the Department's Mycological and Pathological Collections. 



In addition to her work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, she 

 was active in many scientific societies, including: The American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science, the Botanical Society of America, 

 National Geographic Society, Washington Botanical Society, Biological 

 Society of Washington, American Phytopathological Society, and the 

 American Association of University Women. She also published articles 

 on fungi in many scientific journals and, in 1895, was an assistant editor 

 of Economic Fungi. 



She died in Brooklyn, N.Y. 



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