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literally hundreds of varieties of small dwarf climbing, creeping, every known variety of small evergreens, and they have them at the arboretum. The office in which the arboretum's staff is housed is a really very beautiful building surrounded with pools with charmingly spaced fountains and in modern style. It looks like something designed by Ed Stone. Actually it was designed by some people I'd never heard of before--I think Washington architects--but it's a charming, charming example of modern architecture. It's dry without planning and it hasn't got a great deal of planning around it, believe it or not. They haven't bothered to move any of their splendid examples of their trees to enhance the building even. But it is very pretty. The azaleas are planted around roadways and they have some collections of rhodedendron and their collections of evergreen are on this hillside overlooking the Anacostia River.

Now, this is a place that's quite aside from people's normal traffic. A few people come to see the azaleas in bloom, but if these same azaleas had been planted on highways or in the circles or triangles in Washington or on the grounds of the national capitol, it would be a sight that would enthrall people. I asked about transplanting the azaleas, but they say they're too big to transplant. They really do reach maybe six feet across in some instances, but it seems to me they could be cut back; but maybe their roots are too large, and maybe it's