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No, Ginkos, mostly.

And I planted trees on the east side of Fifth Avenue, from 59th to 96th in honor of Anna Rosenberg Hoffman and Ambassador Patterson, because I thought the idea of having an arch of trees on Fifth Avenue to meet the trees at the park would make a beautiful green look.

Now, of course, there were originally a few trees on all of these streets, but I filled in wherever there were any holes and wherever there was a lack of trees and wherever trees could be put wherever the owners would allow trees to be put. However, I found that this was too expensive and too slow-going, so I got Mrs. Hoffman to persuade the Mayor and the Budget Director, which was an enormous amount of work, to plant 5,000 trees on the north and southbound streets between 42nd and 125th Street, on First Avenue, Lexington, Second, Madison, York Avenue, and some on Broadway, in order to make the city green for the Fair, for the visitors to the Fair. Of course, we didn't care a bit about the visitors to the Fair; we cared about our own pleasured in the City and the pleasure of the permanent residents of the City. However, it was sold as the idea that it was a good commercial act. Now we're in the process of trying to do the same to get the second five thousand trees--at about a hundred dollars a tree--so as to plant east and west, between the East River and the Hudson River, between 34th Street and 59th Streets. Now, we have not absolutely got this done yet, although the Mayor and the Budget Director assure us that we're going to get the





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