Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1909 — CHERRY TREES FROM JAPAN [ARTICLE]

CHERRY TREES FROM JAPAN

They Will Be Planted Along the Patomac Drive in Washington. Washington, Oct. 19.—When the honorary commercial commissioners of Japan arrive in Washington on Nov. 1 they will be taken on an automobile ride which will include Potomac drive, along which 2,000 cherry trees, to be presented to this country by the emperor of Japan, will' be planted. * The trees will be sent to Mrs. Taft, wife of the president, and by her presented to the government for transplanting along the Potomac. In Japan, the land of the cherry blossoms, there are may beautiful legends about the tree and flower of the cherry.