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draw thousands of tourists and local residents alike. 1912 Japanese cherry trees are given to the United States as a goodwill gesture from the royal family are destroyed when found to be infected with insects and disease. A second shipment of trees is planted at Washington, D.C., where they will blossom each spring to make the Tidal Basin a perennial tourist attraction. These are non-fruiting trees. |
 towers into a deep blue sky, framed by the famous Japanese Cherry Blossoms.
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 is framed by blossoms covering trees surrounding the nearby Tidal Basin.
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 tourists walk among the Japanese Cherry Blossoms ringing the Tidal Basin.
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A federal district of the eastern United States on the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland. Coextensive with the city of Washington. It was established by congressional acts of 1790 and 1791 on a site selected by George Washington. |
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City and district capital of the United States of America, located at the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Population, 606, 900+. |
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