If I'm not mistaken, that first picture of the JWP is a tree that was donated to the arboretum in 1976 for the bi-centennial with a group of 53 trees. What wasn't told to the curator at that time was that the tree began it's training in 1625, and survived the Hiroshima blast by being positioned close to a sheltering wall. The story of the tree was unknown until the grandsons of Masaru Yamaki, who donated the trees, came to the arboretum in 2001 to look at the tree, and shared it's amazing history. Great story.
