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planted.

Are they the double ones?

No, they're the singles. They're like the ones in Kenwood and the ones in the Tidal Basin. Mrs. Vincent Astor is going to give a marvelous playground to one of our worst schools in Washington, similar to the Jacob Riis housing planting that she did here. It's not only a planting but it's original ways of providing entertainment for children and sitting space for older people.

I see. Which school is involved?

Buchanan School. Do you know it?

We raised some money and have planted Rhode Island Avenue with double-flowering cherries for its entire length.

The entire length of Rhode. Island Avenue?

Yes. Scott Circle has been planted with flowering cherries in memory of Mrs. Florence Pritchard Smith, Mrs. Earle Smith. As a result of a luncheon given in December of '65, -- for General Duke and for the Highway Commission as of Maryland and of Virginia, who sent deputies, and for Mr. Tarine, the Commissioner -- of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia -- aroused the District to plant the Southwest Freeway,