Word: dogwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passage we kept by two sturdy porters named Riches and Poverty, and the latter obstinately refused to give Entrance to any who had first gain'd the Favour of the former ..." --Benjamin Franklin, 1772, Dogwood Paper...
...firmly insisted that no public places be named after her, but Lady Bird Johnson had not reckoned with Stewart Udall. She watched unsuspecting as the Interior Secretary formally announced the planting of 2,700 dogwood trees and 1,000,000 daffodils on a beautiful 121-acre island park in the Potomac River. Then she sat up with a start as Udall announced that what was Columbia Island will henceforth be known as "Lady Bird Johnson Park...
...care for than macadam, the flower bed on the traffic island just North of the Common testifies that plants are feasible and refreshing mid-city and even mid-traffic. Limited areas of ground cover like pachysandra, evergreens like taxus, juniper, euonymus and holly, attractive, spare trees like birch, dogwood and Japanese cherry, and protable planters with shurbs and annuals make up a rich vocabulary a landscape architect could choose from to transform Brattle Square...
KENTUCKY: Blind in Duck Hollow Eb Herald would like to see it, but he can't: the sweet William and May apple and columbine bright on the ledges, the dogwood dotting the green rise to the west, the clear bulge of Duck Creek as it purls over the smooth stones through Duck Hollow. Eb ? his real name is Elbert, but one doesn't call a mountain man that ? is 56, and he went blind seven years ago. (Degenerative blindness afflicts many Appalachian dwellers as a result of in breeding.) Lank and long-striding in his pale blue...
...lucky fellow who wins this week's 32nd annual Masters tournament at Georgia's dogwood-dotted Augusta National Golf Club will receive a check for $20,000, a silver plaque, a gold medal, a gold locket containing a picture of Bobby Jones, and a green blazer. He will also get a bonus that all the money in the world cannot buy: lifetime playing privileges at Augusta National, the most exclusive and autocratic golf club...