468 Hope Street, 
Providence, K.I. 
10, IS14 
Eov, 
Deer Chamberlain: - 
Am very glad to hear from you. I have been 
intending to write you Aver since I got home a woe Jr ago last 
evening, but the cane old excuse is the one that is still on 
the jpb. 
I am much interested in what you say about Painter’s 
Arboretum. I lava heard of it before and have, in s general 
way, had it on my mind to visit tic place some day. Looking 
over the condition of old trees of that sort is right in my 
regular line of work now. I must put it on ray "calling list” 
for the near future after the winter has passed. Can yon give 
me any more defined to Information as to just how to roach it, 
or with whom to get into communication with in order to see 
it to the best advantage? 
I am very much in doubt as to my getting down to the Phlla- 
delnhie meeting of the 1L\ Al \\ ,:j At present I &za thinking 
that I will not go down, but I may change my mind before the 
time arrives. If I do go down I shall plan to show up at the 
SMS at least long enough to say "Howde do", and probably more. 
I was, of course, sorry not to see you when I was in Hew 
York, but understood that you had probably planned a long ways 
ahead for the trip. 1 found lio Hotel York on Seventh Av®, • 
quite a decent place, aside from the general neighborhood, 
i went dorm to TJaslmingtor. about the middle of October and 
mm in Washington-practically ell the time, working over plans 
for the mew laboratory of 1crest lathelogy in the Mirnsey Building. 
I was out to Bluemtatt, Ya. for two days to look over the work 
of one o ~ rty cssiobants who is doing extensive spraying opera ¬ 
tions in a chestnut orchard up on the top of the Blue Hi Age 
Kts. fhe spraying i/ to see if the progress of the blight 
/can be checked by spraying continuously before the trees are 
actually diseased. The experiment looks dubious to me but 
it is one that ought to bo tried out even though it is expected 
to fail. It is the largest experiment of the sort that has yet 
been tried—-over 2600 trees included in the experiment. 
- I am mighty glad to hear that you are planning to come up 
to Providence this winter. If the weather in not too outrageous 
we will try and get out to the denotes’ farm. They are only 
two miles from the new Chepschet trolley line now. 
I am inclosing the two prints that you wanted. I hed a chance 
to work a little on photographs last evening. 
All about ae usual here. 
With beet regard s 
