a few down there. 
By this time you are probably way up in the 
chestnut region of Yunnan. I do hope sincerely that 
you are going to be able to land here alive some of 
those wonderful chestnuts which are going to contribute 
their blood, so to speak, in the production of disease 
resistant chestnuts. I have just received a letter 
from Mr. Joe P. Wilson, of landon, Mississippi, saying 
that his single tree of Quereus cornea which we sent 
him several years ago is now a fair sized tree but has 
never fruited. I suppose he needs another tree beside 
it. However, the success of his tree indicates that in 
Mississippi, at least, these Quereus corneas are likely 
to succeed, and. Heaven knows, they need down in that 
region new plants that will yield something besides a 
mediocre quality of timber. 
Mr. Dorsett is back from the West, and Mr. Wilson 
Popenoe is in from the cordilleras of South America. 
Our catalogue of new plants is going oi.it, and we will 
soon be in the midst of the distribution season. i 
am sending you a copy of the catalogue to shorn' you what 
kind of material we are distributing. 
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As yet the material from Austria has not come 
in, although the books have arrived and I have them in 
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my hands. I should like very much indeed to get 
more familiar with that Austrian fruit culture, although 
