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California and thence east through the Middle West and 

 south through the Gulf Coast States and Into Florida. 

 It will include visits to all the Field Stations of 

 the Office and numerous State Experiment Stations and 

 private experimenters in plant introduction. He is ex- 

 pected back some time in November. 



Dr. Galloway assumes his old title of Plant 

 Pathologist, which he retained during all the years 

 of his connection with the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Mr. Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer of the 

 Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, who 

 returned last October from a three years' stay in 

 Northwestern China, has finished the writing of his 

 reports and the arranging of his material here in 

 Washington and has sailed for his third Chinese ex- 

 pedition and his fourth into Asia. 



It is expected that he will continue his work on 

 the northern fruits and vegetables of China and extend 

 his explorations into the provinces south of the 

 Yangtze River, which is still, so far as plants are 

 concerned, almost an unknown region. 



The climate of these provinces which approach 

 the tropics, resembles that of the South Atlantic and 

 Gulf States and although temperatures do not go so 

 low there as they do in our Gulf Region, frosts occur 

 and many plants, it is believed, will be found there 

 which will thrive as far north as the Carolinas. 



The hardiness of the giant edible bamboo (a na- 

 tive of South China) in Louisiana and as far north as 

 Savannah is an indication of the possibility of find- 

 ing important new plants in South China, where we have 

 records already of edible fruited oaks, slightly frost- 

 resistant litchis, southern pears, plums and grapes, 

 and vegetables especially suited for marsh or pond 

 culture . 



It is expected that Mr. Meyer will remain in this 

 region about three years and arrangements have been 

 made for him to cooperate with the Philippine Bureau 

 of Agriculture in the handling of such new tropical 

 plant material as he may discover. 



Mr. Wilson Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer of the 

 Office, is now in Guatemala investigating the wild 

 plant possibilities of the uplands of that interest- 

 ing region where many new fruit species and varieties 

 are yet to be discovered which should be brought into 

 culture throughout the tropics. Such fruits and vege- 

 tables as the Sapote, Avocado, Annona, Chayote, and 

 many others will be studied by Mr. Popenoe. 



