LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Frontispiece. Cherry trees lining waterway in Japan in 1902. Photograph 

 shown to Mrs. Taft by Spencer Cosby. 



Figure 1. — Potomac Park in the middle and late 19th century. 



Figure 2. — Roadway in Japan in 1902 lined with flowering cherry trees. 



Figure 3. — James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, 1897-1913. 



Figure 4. — David and Marian Fairchild among the cherry blossoms at "In 

 the Woods." (Courtesy of the Fairchild Tropical Gardens.) 



Figure 5. — Schoolboys on Arbor Day at "In the Woods": Top, Entering 

 the grounds; bottom, receiving instructions in planting and caring for 

 the cherry trees. (Courtesy of the Fairchild Tropical Gardens.) 



Figure 6.— Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State, 1909-1913. 



Figure 7. — Map of Tidal Basin showing proposed planting of Japanese 

 cherry trees approved by Mrs. Taft on March 6, 1912. 



Figure 8. — First shipment of flowering cherry trees at the U.S. Propaga- 

 ting Gardens on January 6, 1910: top, Unloading the trees; bottom, 

 storing the trees. 



Figure 9. — Albert F. Woods, Acting Chief, Bureau of Plant Industry, in 

 1910. 



Figure 10. — David G. Fairchild, plant explorer and 'author. 



Figure 11. — Flora W. Patterson, one of the scientists who inspected the 

 first shipment of Japanese cherry trees. (Courtesy, Mycologia, vol. 21.) 



Figure 12. — Department of Agriculture scientists inspecting first shipment 

 of Japanese cherry trees, January 7, 1910. 



Figure 13. — First shipment of Japanese cherry trees being prepared for 

 burning (top) and being burned (bottom). 



Figure 14. — Mayor and Mrs. Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo, Japan, taken in 

 1910 around the time of the destruction of the first shipment of Japa- 

 nese cherry trees. 



Figure 15.— First Lady, Mrs. William H. Taft, in 1908. 



Figure 16. — Count Sutemi Chinda and wife, Viscountess Iwa Chinda. 



Figure 17. — Eliza Scidmore, American writer who traveled in Japan. 

 (Courtesy, Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library.) 



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

 and Grounds for the Washington, D.C, area. 



Figure 19. — Mayor Ozaki and daughters among the cherry trees in Poto- 

 mac Park, 1923. (Courtesy of the Fairchild Tropical Gardens.) 



Figure 20. — Selected groups of cherry trees on the Tidal Basin: A, In 1921 

 and B and C, 1925; D, a specimen of Ichiyo selection in 1929; E, a 

 grouping of Takinioi selection in 1930; and F, closeup of blossoms of 

 Somei-Yoshino selection in 1921. 



Figure 21. — Japanese visitors on the Tidal Basin among the cherry trees 

 in 1938. 



