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what success you met with in growing it and what your 
opinion is as to the suitability of our soil and climate 
to its production. 
Very Respectfully, 
(Signed) Geo. B. Loring, Commissioner. 
You will note by the first letter that Father had re- 
ceived a shipment of Bamboo roots prior to this letter 
dated Feb. 1882 and evidently they did not thrive well and 
he sent for more. To the best of my recollections one of 
the varieties correspond with the one you describe in your 
pamphlet as "Mosa-chiku. " As I remember the name in the 
first letter was something like "moasic." 
