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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated March 17, 1950 reads "In keeping with the Los Angeles Beautiful campaign, this is the third garden club group to plant flowering trees on the freeway. The Home Garden Group with members (left to right) Mmes. E. J. Armer, civic beautification chairman; Grace Miller, president; Wm. Groupe, director, Dist. 2, California Garden Clubs, Inc., and chairman of the Los Angeles Beautiful planting contest; and Hal Baldwin, first vice president of California Garden Clubs, plant a Jacaranda mimosaefolia from South America. Other groups that have planted flowering trees are the Valley clubs of California Garden Clubs, Inc., and the Las Jardineras Club of Los Angeles."
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