On March 27, 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River Tidal Basin ...

In Washington D.C., first lady Helen Herron Taft and the wife of Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Viscountess Chinda, planted the first two of 3,000 cherry trees given to the U.S.

First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two trees at Tidal Basin on 27 March of that year.

The Japanese government gifted the US with about 3,000 cherry trees in 1912. First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two trees at Tidal ...