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future these inventories of newly imported plants will not only be 

 more accurate, but will contain more useful information and will 

 appear more promptly than in the past, and in this way become of 

 much more value to the experimenters who are studying the new 

 things as they come in. 



David Fairchild, 

 Agricultural Explorer in Charge. 

 Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 



Washington, I). C, September 14, 1908. 



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