Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-15
The Glory City.

Washington Is burgeoning. Miles upon
miles of streets are lined with budding
trees, putting forth their wonderful color
tones In token of the new spring. Its
acres of park lands are a marvel OF sort
freshness of foliage. Washington is a
garden.
To those who live here there are splen-
doris often unrealized in this glorious sea-
son. We walk about the streets only
family approaching the wonderful bless
ings bestowed upon us by those who plan
ned this rare city of wide thoroughfares
and parkings and tree spaces. Year after
year we see these marvels and accept
them as the due Of the Washingtonian,
blessed above his fellow-countrymen with
a garden city for a habitation. When our
guests come, from cities which perhaps
boast each of a single street of trees we
catch the inspiration of their wonder and
appreciate the fact that here in WASH
Ington every corner turning has its pleas
ures lying in wait for the eye.
Not only are the show places of Wash
ington supremely glorious in their spring
attractiveness. The Capitol grounds and
the Smithsonian Park and Rock Creek
Park and the Zoo, Soldiers Home and the
w nllG IOI are IdulOuS 4OI liICiI cOAS liiIlc
of early season nature painting. their
daily expanding shade, their gently adj
vancing verdure their indescribable blend
ings Of color. No part Of Washington is
without its own local attractiveness.
Some OF the less conspicuous streets have
beauties even greater than those of the
parks. arched with lacing limbs and
branches, vistas Of exercising loneliness.
The Potomac Park speedway. late addi-
ton to the list Of local attractions, is to-
day a marvel of spring beauty.
Then there are the wide lawns. the soft,
inviting turf of generous spaces wisely
provided for the recreation of children
and the resting Of tired humanity. There
are the flower beds aglow with colors that
no artists palette ever produced, formal
beds of tulips and hyacinths. The cro-
cuses have gone, but the volunteer dan
delions have replaced them, jolly intruders
into the lawns. Later will come the longer
blooming plants, the geraniums and the
glowing leaf growths with their rich mid
summer tones. Just now all the flowers
are gladstone and joyous, fitly expressing
the spirit of Washington in April, lifting
the voice of Washington, the garden city
In no particular is Washington more
glorious at this time than its shrubbery
The parks are gorgeous with the lilacs
and the Judas tree and the forsythia or
golden rain. Some Of the forms OF spi-
raea are now showing white against the
soft green's Of the background of foliage
Here and there flag with it's imperial
purple mods in the soft spring breeze. At
every turn the eye finds some combina-
ton Of form and color. Washington is
aglow in its new garb.
Those who have made the journey to
this city in spring never forget their ex-
perience. 1t becomes subject of peren-
NAL conversation. To the majority of
American tourists it stands as does the
traditional visit to Japan in cherry bios
som time to the world travellers. Tens of
thousands of fortunate American citizens
are able to make this spring pilgrimage
and probably if the full measure Of
Washington's spring joyousness were
realized the annual visitation here In
April and May would tax the capacity of
the capital to the utmost. Those who
come see the truly city beautiful They
see the garden city beyond compare