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or subsequent handling. We cannot pretend to guarrantee the methods 

 of shipping plants from Cuba that they will not arrive at their des- 

 tination wilted or rotted or even dead. We can only make inspection 

 and issue certificates regarding the disease and insects present. 



Extract of a letter from Wilmon Newell to Wm. D. Sturock, Miami; 

 Florida dated Oct. 10, 1916. 



Prof. John E. Johnston, Experiment Station, Santiago de las Ve- 

 gas, Havana, Cuba, has been very anxious to investigate this trouble 

 which attacked these palms and as he has been very insistent that 

 he has not been able to find any disease of the Royal Palm in the 

 Island of Cuba, ip fact, inspected these very palms beaftfre they w^re 

 dug without finding them diseased, I would suggest that if possible 

 you cut out a section of one of these diseased palms, showing the 



diseased tissues and send it to him at the above address... I 



believe that we should offord Prof. Johnston this opportunity of 

 examining the trees whicli" must unquestionably be infected with 

 something severe, otherwise those planted out would not have con- 

 tinued to show infection. 



Iietter from J. B. Johnston, dated Oct. 18, 1916 to Wilmon Newell. 



I greatly appreciate your letter of Oct. 10 with reference to the 

 palms, and wish to thank you for the trouble you are taking to settle 

 this matter. We shall be very glad to examine any material that is 

 sent us and do what we cain ourselves to settle this question. At the 

 same time to be frank I must state that I have no faith in any exam- 

 ination of the palms in Miami as 1, believe them to be so badly injured 

 that anything developing on them wilt be purely saprophytic, and 

 that really the only place to study these palms is here in the field 

 where they were obtained. 



Letter from Inspector of the Federal Hortdcultural Board to J. B. 

 Johnston, dated Sept. 22, 1916. 



I have just received a letter from Wilmon Newell. He sent me with 

 the letter a small spedimen cut from th6 infected paldi trunks by 

 the inspector, which was for some time preserved in foriiialin and 

 then takeh out of the formalin. The specimen is in such shape that I 

 do not make anything out of it. 



I wonder if this statement will enable you to tell me what 



