The Garden Nurseries, Penn Valley, Narberth, Pa. 
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ing of these trees opens the spring season and becomes an occasion for 
a national holiday. 
At Wash ington, D. C., where there is a collection of nearly 1,000 trees 
planted around the Ti dal Basin, Yoshino predominates. All the newspapers 
in the East give detailed reports of the progress of the buds in Washington 
Parks , and when they 
hnally burst into full 
bl oom, the City o f 
Washington becomes 
a mecca for tourists 
for hundreds of miles 
around. The roads 
leading to the city are 
so crowded with motor 
cars that the traffic is 
slowed down to ten 
miles per hour, and 
through the Parks traf¬ 
fic moves four cars 
abreast. 
With US Yoshino is a spreading tree hfteen to twenty feet high and 
wide. This variety can be grown from seed and will reproduce true to 
type from seed with very slight variation. Most trees offered by nurserymen 
are grafted or budded on sweet cherry understock, on which they th rive 
very well, but seedlings are much more vigorous and desirable. One diffi- 
cu Ity is, the seeds cannot readily be obtained from Japan, because the seeds 
generally dry up and die during the long voyage across the ocean. In 
certain communities Yoshino produces a tremendous crop of small cherries, 
each cherry with one seed, and all of them grow into vigorous young plants 
if planted immediately. 
This variety in common with nearly all trees will branch freely from the 
ground up, and would, if not properly managed, simply turn into a large 
bush with bottom branches lying on the ground. Therefore, it is advisable 
to stake the tree continuously until it is ten feet high. This object could 
be achieved possibly without the stake if the lower branches are continu¬ 
ously removed. A fair size top will always be maintained, but it is 
advisable to provide a central leader. 
Yoshino Daybreak is an improved form of the Yoshino type. It has 
somewhat larger flowers that are pink, but otherwise similar in habit 
of growth. 
A Pair of Weeping Cherry Trees Planted at an Entrance 
Shidare-Higan Zakura 
