Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-03-31 | Page 21 | A Washington Bystander

I I A I WASHINGTON BYSTANDER I Dy By HERBERT C. C PLUMMER W It WAShINGTON-it will soon 1 b cherry blossom time In Washington I An-I cherry blossoms mean only one thing in the tl capital city of the United States States- spring One has never k known now n I Wt 1 In all aU of Its until un- un til one has seen it it 4 in the springtime It Is then that some three miles of the Japanese cherry trees sym sym- bols of happiness or the sakura spirit of Japan are m ja bloom Clong the speedway and around the tidal basin I People come from near and far to get a glimpse tt them Artists set their easels under the blooming trees trying to put on canvas the reality of the blossoms Girls clad oriental costumes along the these se sea wall Ii h over over- them Japanese Japanese Japa- Japa nese sunshades GIFT OF JAPANESE I The Washington cherry blossoms date back to the time that Mrs 1 I William Howard Taft was first lady of the land She had seen them In Inthe inthe the east and had hada number of the tree tre planted here Then Dr Jokichi a noted chemist of Japan came to Washington on a visit Ic He was delighted delighted de- de lighted to Je learn n of the interest taken in his country's cherry bIos bios- oms Through Dr a ift of 2000 trees wa was sent to Washington In 1909 The trees arrived but Vere condemned a as Infected and were burned But Dr wits Was not tobe discouraged He resumed resumed re- re his efforts and more trees were sere given by the city In 1911 rom From these grew the bower of blooms that ar areto to be seen now no The cherry blossoms are in numerous numerous num- num erous shades FIrst there are the almost white and the delicate lavenders and pinks yellow cerise two weeks later come the double rose pink tl th ultimate of Japanese cherry blossoms There are at least a dozen species df f the blossoms varying In shape size color and time of flowering They bloem in turn about six weeks from their first appearance makIng nak- nak Ing a continuous succession of blooms The trees have no fruit Some say that they are really a a kind of 01 plum and their botanical name is pseudo AMBASSADORIAL BACKGROUND Last spring the former forner Japanese ambassador and Madame Matsudaira Matsudaira Matsu- Matsu daira and their f. f f nily were plc- plc often orten under the beautiful trees Miss Setsu Matsudaira was especially the object of the camera canera because or of her engagement to the young youn Prince of Japan whom she married married last last summer This year Jear no doubt the new ambassador ambassador am- am from from Japan Katsuji De- De buchl buchi and nd Madame De-buehl De with their son and daughter will m be picture pictured pic- pic ture unde the trees from their theiron o n country The Japan Japanese se poet compares the cherry cherr blossoms to life BCe Life IMe Is short Like the e days s glory Of the cherry blossoms I CHRYSANTHEMUMS GROWING ON ONE STEM Five h hundred and twenty three chrysanthemums growing on one plant With the nourishment brought from the the- ground by So a single sin sin- singie gle gie stem a plant belonging to the in Japan Produced a r or of blooms A framework bamboo held the stalks In suli su h position that the plant appeared to to be a huge pyramid of f shaggy flowers s. Japan Is noted for Its beds some of the finest 1 being found In the park In T llo where the unusual plant wIth Us blooms attracted crowds when it was as e cx- cx The chrysanthemum on- on in In the orient being first found in I r