Agriculture, to H. Suzuki, Manager, The Yokohama Nursery 

 Company, Yokohama, Japan, April 24, 1904, DFP, MLFTG. 



10. H. Suzuki, Manager, Yokohama Nursery Co., Yokohama, Japan, to 



David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer in Charge, Washington, 

 D.C., February 3, 1906, DFP, MLFTG. 



1 1. David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer in Charge, to Mr. H. Suzuki, 



Manager, Yokohama Nursery Co., Japan, December 30, 1905; 

 see: Fairchild to Suzuki, February 17, 1906, requesting delivery 

 before March; Yokohama Nursery Company, Invoice No. 694, 

 dated February 19, 1906; Fairchild to the Yokohama Nursery 

 Company, May 16, 1906; Fairchild, "The Cherry Trees of Japan," 

 p. 5, DFP, MLFTG. 



12. Thomas McAdam, "In the Woods." Country Life in America (Oc- 



tober 1914), pp. 48-49, 86, 88. 



13. David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer in Charge of Foreign 



Explorations to the Yokohama Nursery Company, Japan, Sep- 

 tember 26, 1907; see: Fairchild to Mr. Claude, Secretary, Chevy 

 Chase Land Company, September 26, 1907; Yokohama Nursery 

 Company to David Fairchild with attached invoice for 300 cherry 

 trees, October 21, 1907; Fairchild to Claude, November 1907, and 

 Fairchild to the Yokohama Nursery Company, December 3, 

 1907, concerning both the desired size of the trees and the need 

 for speed in their shipment, DFP, MLFTG. 



14. Fairchild, "The Cherry Trees of Japan," p. 6, DFP, MLFTG. 



15. David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer in Charge, to Mr. H. Suzuki, 



Manager, Yokohama Nursery Company, Japan, November 15, 

 1907. DFP, MLFTG. 



16. David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer in Charge, to Susan B. Sipe, 



March 21, DFP, MLFTG. 



17. Fairchild, "The Cherry Trees of Japan," p. 6, DFP, MLFTP. Also, 



"Arbor Day Observed School Pupils Engaged in An Elaborate 

 Celebration." Washington Evening Star, March 27, 1908. 



18. Washington, D.C., National Archives (hereinafter cited as NA). 



Record Group 42 (hereinafter cited as RG42). David Fairchild, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, to Spencer Cosby, 

 Superintendent of Public Buildings and Parks, April 4, 1909. See 

 also: 1st endorsement, Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, 

 April 8, 1909; 2d endorsement, Propagating Gardens, April 7, 

 1907. 



19. NA. RG42. Spencer Cosby, Superintendent of Public Buildings and 



Parks, to Hoopes Brothers and Thomas Company, West Chester, 

 Pa., April 12, 1909. 



20. MLFTG. DFP. David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer in Charge, 



to H. Suzuki, Manager, Yokohama Nursery Company, June 7, 

 1909. There are many secondhand accounts crediting a Dr. Tak- 

 amine, an eminent chemist then living in New York, with having 



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