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With Mr. Tuttle I am already iu correspondence and Mr. Sias' name 

 as a nurseryman is known to me from Mr. Gibb's work upon Russian 

 apples, and the transactions of American horticultural convention that 

 Mr. Rogers was so friendly to send me. I have read the program of 

 your winter meeting and the papers to be read. Your transactions or 

 reports must be very interesting and instructive and I will be very 

 thankful to you if you will send me copies. 



I have taken the liberty to mail you some seeds of cabbages, cucum- 

 bers, rutabagoes and onions that grow in open air in Petersburg 

 60° N. L., and some watermelon seed that must be sown uuder glass 

 and transplanted with earth; they grow with us under 45-50* N. L., 

 in the open air. 



If you wish some other seeds please write and I will be happy to 

 furnish you with them. 



With great respect, yours, 



Gr. DOPPELMAIR. 



The seeds referred to were received by the Secretary March 30th and 

 sent to Prof. Porter at the Experimental Farm, to be tested there. 



Among the list of seeds are two varieties from the Crimea, one of 

 Turkish origin and one from Astreakan. 



Subsequently the following was received : 



KiEW, Russia, May IT, 1886. 

 S. D, Hillman, Secretary, etc. 



Returned after an abscense of some months to Kiew. I have found 

 your highly esteemed letters and the copy of your annual report. For 

 these favors, please receive my cordial thanks. I will send to Prof. 

 Porter, cions of our apples, next fall, for your experimental farm. 



Please give me some indications about your climate to be of assist- 

 ance to me possibly in selecting cions, from varieties grown under 

 similar conditions and regions of your own. If I am rightly informed 

 you have cold winters and dry summers and with great changes 

 of temperature in twenty-four hours. I think our country has some- 

 what similar conditions. 



Would Prof. Porter be pleased to receive original seeds of Pirus 

 Malus bassota or P. M. frunifolio? I can send him some. 



With great respect, yours, 



G. DOPPELMAIR. 



