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I took my FIL golfing at East Potomac Park today and we stopped to admire the "mystery cherry blossom grove" featured in a story in today's Washington Post. All but 12 of the original shipment of cherry trees from Japan in 1910 was destroyed because of a bug infestation. The 12 were planted in an "experimental plot" and then forgotten in the hubub of the 1912 shipment and dedication. Park Service spokesmen say this may be the lost grove: