In 1910, Japan’s gift of 2,000 cherry trees to Washington was burned after pest checks, helping spur a new US plant-quarantine law
Before Washington’s famous cherry blossoms, a 1910 shipment from Japan was burned over insects and disease, and the fallout reshaped U.S. plant rules.
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