NOTES AND SELECTED REFERENCES 



1. Masso Yoshikawa, "Romance of Japanese Cherry Blossoms Closely 



Related to Philosophy of Life." Washington Sunday Star, April 

 18, 1926, ed. 



2. Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits, Ornamental Trees, Flowering 



Shrubs and Plants ... by Ellwanger and Barry . . . (Rochester, 

 N.Y.: Power Press of the Daily Advertiser, 1846), p. 27; Cata- 

 logue of Fruits and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Roses, 

 Greenhouse and Stove Plants, . . . of Parson and Co. . . . 

 (Flushing, Long Island, N.Y.: Charles R. Lincoln, 1852), p. 17; 

 both catalogues are located in the Domestic Nursery Catalogue 

 Collection of the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Md.; 

 Paul Russell, "Japanese Flowering Cherries," U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture Circular No. 313, pp. 1-3, 1934, Washington, D.C.; 

 In his article, Russell somehow interpreted the double-flowered 

 Chinese cherry listed on p. 17 of Parson's 1852 catalogue as being 

 a double-flowered Japanese cherry. 



3. See Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, "The Cherry Blossoms of Japan: 



Their Season of . . . Festivity and Poetry," Century Magazine, 

 vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 643-650, 1910. 



4. The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Arts and Rural Taste, vol. 



17, p. 186, 1862. 



5. John L. Creech, "Highlights of Ornamental Plant Introduction in 



the United States," Longwood Program Seminars . . . No. 6, pp. 

 21-25, 1974. 



6. Knowles A. Ryerson, "History and Significance of the Foreign Plant 



Introduction Work of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture," Agricultural History, vol. 7 (1933), pp. 1 10-120; see also the 

 memoir account of William Saunders entitled, "The Journal of 

 William Saunders, Dec. 20, 1898 - Jan. 10, 1899," (Washington, 

 D.C.: n.p., n.d.), 252 pp. Copy on file at the National Agricul- 

 tural Library. 



7. Willard Lee Hoeng, "James Wilson as Secretary of Agriculture, 



1897 - 1913." Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wis- 

 consin (Ann Arbor, Mich.: n.p., 1965), pp. 32-35. 



8. Gustavus Weber, The Bureau of Entomology; Its History, Activities 



and Organization, Institute for Government Research, Service 

 Monographs of the U.S. Government, No. 59 (Washington, D.C.: 

 The Brookings Institute, 1930), pp. 15-16. 



9. David Fairchild, "The Cherry Trees of Japan," Unpublished, p. 2. In 



David Fairchild Papers, on file at the Montgomery Library of the 

 Fairchild Tropical Gardens (hereinafter cited as DFP, MLFTG); 

 see Russell, "Japanese Flowering Cherries," p. 2. David Fairchild, 

 Agricultural Explorer in Charge, Foreign Seed and Plant Intro- 

 duction of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of 



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