Each Directorate is sent a package from Victoria Shipping with multiple postmarks on the exterior. Worked into one of the postmarks is a copy of Pedder's seal. The return address is Ponce de Leon, Florida. Inside each package are copies of a gardening handbook "Weeds: Preventive Gardening " with sufficent copies ensuring one book for each Ventrue. Also included is one black and white photograph of a cemetary overrun with kudzu vines, probably somwhere in the southern United States (crafts-3). A bottle of toxic strength weed killer (by Pentex no less!) is included. By apply the number of letters in kudzu (5) to the list of chemical ingredients on the bottle, the following message is revealed:
"He who can give a thing has power. He who has given is powerless. Prune your gardens. Let no weeds take root. The Italians have mobilized."
