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Article: Garden on the Mall; Seems like holiday in the tropics.(FAMILY TIMES)(FIELD TRIPS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2003
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Byline: Gabriella Boston, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Longing for warm temperatures and the sights and sounds of the tropics? There's no need to book an expensive flight to the Caribbean or Latin America. Just head to the Mall, where the U.S. Botanic Garden offers all that and more.
This year's holiday display, which opened Thanksgiving Day and runs through Jan. 4, includes six model trains on winding tracks. Instead of choo-chooing through a snow-covered New England village, however, the trains meander through a tropical landscape, carrying fresh produce from a mountain plantation. On their way to a rural village decorated for the holidays, the trains narrowly ...