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Quite an asset.

Quite an asset, don't you think so? And they're planted three times a year. They paid for their planting once, but we got the City to do the rest of it. We got the City to finally spend about $350,000 a year on these plantings, to keep them up, on Park Avenue and to keep up the plantings in the tubs. I'd given some tubs on Park Avenue and I'd hoped that other people would give them, but that didn't result in anything; no more tubs were given. I think I gave them for three blocks on Park Avenue, between 57th and 54th, and we got from the City Budget the money to put them on 57th Street and on some parts of Broadway. And a few individual banks and organizations had put tubs out, similar to the Salute to Seasons effort. But example doesn't get a great deal of response, I fear.

However, I went ahead, and in addition to spending some money on a staff for the Salute to Seasons Fund, I have given trees, altogether about 500, to various parts of the City, which I've planted in honor of friends, including Seymour Berkson, Dorothy Schaeffer--both of whom have died--and in honor of Mr. Moses. I've planted some on First Avenue and on other streets in honor of Mr. Moses and in honor of Bob Wagner on 57th Street, and you will see the trees from Sutton Place to Sixth Avenue quite green now on 57th Street.

They're sycamores, are they?