Evening star., 1934-10-14
HOLLY TO CIRCLE
JAPANESE TREES
Green Background to Be
Given Basin Display With
P. w. A. Funds.
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400 American holly trees will be util-
lied, each from 6 to 18 feet in height.
They are to be planted in groups ac-
cording to an approved plan, and there
also will be an evergreen background
of some 200 evergreen shrubs and
trees, which will include white pines,
evergreen thorns, fire thorns and
cotoneaster. The holly display, when
completed, will be "one Of the largest
and finest Of its kind In the world" Of
ficials say.
Under the regular program officials
will endeavor to rehabilitate the fine
stand of chestnut trees that was wiped
out some years ago, when a blight
swept this section. About six years
ago, in cooperation with the Agri-
culture Department, an experiment
was started to produce blight-resistant
varieties of chestnutS. Planted from
the nuts, these trees are now described
as doing well in a nursery near Fort
De RuSsey. These will be transplanted
to hillside locations throughout Rock
Creek Park. The results of their
growth and resistance to blight will be
watched with interest by tree experts
everywhere, it was said.
Shrubs About Museum.
Berry bearing shrubs will be planted
on the slopes adjoining the gray Nat
ural History Museum Of the Smith
sonian Institution. These are calcu-
lated to attract the better class Of
birds and encourage them to make
their homes in the Mall. The Ma
tional Park Service thus hopes to
establish a bird sanctuary in down.
town Washington.
Out OF P. w. A. funds, the National
Capital Parks Service will plant some
so American elm trees on Constitution
avenue, from Virginia avenue to
Twenty street. These will re-
place Norway NAPLES transplanted
elsewhere and will be in keeping with
the American elms now planted along
Constitution avenue from Fourteenth
street to Virginia avenue and from
Twenty second street to the Potomac
River.
In Sherman Square. where the p.
w. a recently COIuP1CICo q AC- oNAAe
job, parks officials will plant willow
oaks to harmonic with the surround
ing landscaping. In addition, low
evergreen hedge will be planted there
around the walk at the base Of the
Sherman memorial
About 100 trees will be moved from
Union Square to other locations, prin-
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within Union Square itself to open up
the vista between the Capitol and the
Washington Monument. American
elms will be planted in the Mall, east
OF Seventh street.
At the water gate of the Arlington
Memorial Bridge an evergreen vine
will be planted as ground covering
to give a more finished appearance to
the project. Along the Memorial ave-
nue., which runs from the west end
of the Arlington Bridge to the east
gate Of Arlington National Cemetery,
oak trees will be planted.
Screen Shrubs and Trees.
Takoma and Banneker Recreation
Centers will be given q screen plant
ing Of shrubs and trees to shut out
the view Of the playing fields from
the streets. Additional trees will be
planted at the Taft Recreation Center.
E1ms will be planted along the Rock
Greek and Potomac Parkway approach
near the Lincoln Memorial. Also
there will be a planting Of elms as a
background for the Ericsson memorial
and additional holly and dogwood will
be planted in the vicinity Of the Dis.
trict World War memorial.
In the Rock Greek and Potomac
Parkway, the playground near K street
will be screened with evergreen shrubs
and trees. There also will be addi-
tional planting of Towering dogwood
and collected materials between Mas
sachusetts avenue and the Taft Bridge.
Retaining walls and other stone strllc-
lures will be planted with vines.
The triangle at Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and o street southeast will be
given a planting of trees and ever
green shrubs.
The program also calls for replac-
ing the Lombardy poplars at Mount
Vernon Park, adjacent to the Public
Library. Low evergreens will be
planted at the Butt-Millet memorial,
south Of the White House. There
also will be a arrangement Of plant
material in Sherman Circle.
The reservation at Maryland and
Virginia avenues, Seventh and Ninth
streets southwest, will have planting
of shrubs and other materials. The
Cardinal Gibbons statue at Park
road and Sixteenth street will be the
center Of q replanting program with
evergreen shrubs.
Additional willow trees will be set
out in East Potomac and Anacostia
Parks, and at Dupont Circle, q hedge
will be planted. At Highland terrace,
on Massachusetts, avenue near Four
teenth street, evergreen shrubs will be
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