As hard as it is to imagine now, in the early Nineteenth Century, few Americans knew about Cherry Blossom Trees, until Japan sent a gift of over 3,000 trees to America, which are now in New York City and Washington D.C.
San Francisco already had a Japanese neighborhood well before all of this, so when the Worlds Fair of 1894 came, the Japanese Tera Garden sent for 1,000 of these special trees, the ancestors of all the Cherry Blossom tree around the city.
These are just a few found throughout Golden Gate Park, as seen 19 February 2022.
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