CONCLUSION 



The first commemoration of the original planting of Japanese cherry 

 trees in 1912 occurred in 1927 when Washington school children re- 

 enacted the event. A second commemoration took place in 1934 when the 

 District of Columbia's Board of Commissioners sponsored a 3-day cele- 

 bration. In 1935, a "Cherry Blossom Festival" was jointly sponsored by 

 many civic groups. 



Figure 18.— Colonel Spencer Cosby, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds for 



the Washington, D.C., area. 



23 



