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about -- let's see, about 800,000 daffodils in this area this year, of various kinds, to West Potomao Park I've planted 400,000 daffodils, so that this whole area of the city will have an entirely new look when it's matured and when the trees are planted, and in bloom. And as you know, dogwoods come later than cherries, so that it will be, I hope, a some really of wonderful bower of flowers with walks through it.

And dogwood is indigenous --

Lasker, -- does well in the area, and so it ought to last a long time. I hope the Park Service will in the course of time replace it. So what essentially I've given to Washington is the plantings of daffodils in Book Creek Park, West Potomao Parkway and Columbia Island, and dogwoods at Key Bridge. Initially the Park Service didn't want to plant large dogwoods. Their horticulturalist was against planting of large dogwoods. - just out of perversity. She just didn't think that large dogwoods should be planted for some absolutely inexplicable reason.

The Park Service is going to plant evergreens and other decicuous trees behind them, other taller trees, and I think that with the dogwoods