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shrubs. Just to put a green strip of grass through something isn't enough. You've got to have good designs for city buildings and you've got to have good planning and open spaces, but you must finish it off with flowering trees and flowers, flowering shrubs.

Q:

Do you think, Mrs. Lasker, it becomes all the more imperative with modern architecture in cities?

Lasker:

Modern architecture is so angular and dry.

In connection with the beautification, further on the subject of beautification and Mrs. Johnson's interest in it, her meeting for the month of June was to be at the arboretum on I think the 19th of June.

Q:

In the District of Columbia.

Lasker:

In the District of Columbia. Now, the arboretum is on the outskirts of Washington. It's a collection of very fine and large azaleas, about 65,000, and some beautiful varieties, a collection that had been willed them, of small dwarf evergreens. I didn't know there was such a specialty in this world, but I find that there is--that there are





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