43. NA. RG42. Professor Yoshinao Kozai, Director, Imperial Agricul- 



tural Experiment Station, Nihigahara, Tokyo, Japan, to Leland 

 O. Howard, Chief, Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, January 29, 1912. 



44. Ibid. 



45. NA. RG42. Yukio Ozaki, Mayor of Tokyo, to Spencer Cosby, 



Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, War 

 Department, February 2, 1912. 



46. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. William Howard Taft 



Papers. Yei Theodora Ozaki, Mayoress, Tokyo, to Mrs. William 

 H. Taft, White House, Washington, D.C., February 26, 1912. 



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



Grounds, to Yukio Ozaki, Mayor of Tokyo, March 13, 1912. 



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



Grounds, to James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, March 26, 1912. 



49. NA. RG42. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. 



Department of Agriculture, to Spencer Cosby, Superintendent of 

 Public Buildings and Grounds, March 27, 1912. 



50. "First Japanese Tree Planted by Mrs. Taft." Washington Evening 



Star, March 28, 1912 ed. Department of Interior, National Cap- 

 ital Parks, A Short History of the Japanese Cherry Trees, Wash- 

 ington, D.C., p. 2 (1938). NA. RG42. Spencer Cosby, Super- 

 intendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, to Yukio Ozaki, 

 Mayor of Tokyo, April 4, 1912. 



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



Grounds, to Yukio Ozaki, Mayor of Tokyo, April 4, 1912. 



52. Ibid. 



53. Interior, A Short History of the Japanese Cherry Trees, p. 2. 



54. Washington Sunday Star, March 21, 1921 ed. 



55. NA. RG42. Yukio Ozaki, Mayor of Tokyo, to Spencer Cosby, 



Superintendent of Public Buildings and Parks, February 19, 

 1912. Handwritten note at bottom of enclosure, Descriptions of 

 Varieties. In 1905, The Report of the Chief of Engineers of the 

 United States Army, p. 2758, mentioned Japanese cherry trees on 

 the White House grounds; possibly these trees were part of an 

 earlier introduction brought from Japan by David Fairchild. 



56. NA. RG42. William W. Harts, Office of Public Buildings and 



Grounds, to E. H. Hall, Secretary, The American Scenic and His- 

 toric Preservation Society, May 11, 1916. 



57. For a recent, well-documented account of Plant Quarantine and 



Inspection, process, organization, and needs, see Vivian D. Wiser, 

 Protecting American Agriculture: Inspection and Quarantine of 

 Imported Plants and Animals. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Economic Research Service, ERS Report No. 266, 58 pp., 1947. 



58. NA. RG42. Wilson Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer Acting in 



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