Some say taking cuttings, rooting them, and then selling the resulting plants, could somehow save the National Arboretum's 50 year-old azaleas.
Some say the plants on the Hill are culls, rejects, of the initial research that developed the Glenn Dale azalea.
Lots of people say that cutting the Azalea on the Hill is contrary to the founder of the National Arboretum's wishes, destroys his research, and will disappoint over 100,000 April-May visitors to the Arboretum.
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