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If this letter should happen to reach you and 
it would be convenient, it would not be a Toad idea 
to send through to us a package of the dried fruits 
of the chaulmoogra, tree. 
You doubtless hairs heard from Lyon in regard to 
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the success which he has had in re sard to the ,arrow¬ 
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know that we are making arrangements with the United 
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Fruit Company to send them a lot of chaulmoogra'trees.* 
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‘he United Fruit Company is very much interested and 
wants to establish an experimental 
Rica, where, so far as we can make out. the soil 
conditions will be better than they are in Panama. 
he chaulmoogra tress, and you will Td© glsm to 
As i have written you. we took down a number of 
chaulmoogra trees last August and established them 
here on the Zone. 
I do not know exactly how they 
,re coming on, but the soil is a pretty stiff day 
soil and I am afraid not especially suited for chaulmoogra 
The Costa, Rica soil is a fine alluvial soil, 
and Mr. Popenoe has seen it and seen the trees of 
chaulmoogra and dismissed the situation with us, and 
he thinks they ought to grow well there, 
nobody can tell without■trying. 
Do not forget that we need more material and tha 
we need to be in touch with a constant stream of this 
material, if there is any way of establishing it. 
some correspondents through y 
