. . . the United States has suffered immense damage to its trees and its agriculture 

 generally by various injurious insects not indigenous but introduced from foreign 

 countries, and ... the introduction of any new kind might result in the future in the 

 enormous detriment to fruit growers and agriculturists of the country. From this 

 point of view, the Department of Agriculture seems to have no choice but the painful 

 duty of ordering the destruction of the trees (39). 



Knox also provided Ambassador Uchida with three copies of Secretary 

 Wilson's final report. On January 28, after receiving the consent of Presi- 

 dent Taft, Colonel Cosby ordered the trees burned, along with the 

 bamboo canes and wrappings used in packing the trees for shipment (40). 

 Charles Henlock, chief gardener, executed the burning (fig. 13). 



Figure 10. — David G. Fairchild, plant explorer and author. 



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