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stocks for a large number of "budded and grafted trees, in 
order to get a widespread reading, to determine the practi- 
cability of reconstructing pear orchards in all parts of 
the country. Material is already at hand or can he secured 
for numhers of comhinations with other species and varieties 
in providing "bodies and roots. 
19. It is proposed to grow the stock at the Talent 
Station, where there are good facilities for this kind of 
work. 
20. S.P.I, should retain a portion of the seed (Bisset 
says ahout one-half) for aiding other v/orks in this field. 
S.P.I, should take steps to get "budwood or graffs from the 
Oroville tree, as seedlings from this tree appear to show 
evidences of crossing (see leaves sent); hence, the neces- 
sity of assuring a stock of the two South China types of 
H* calleryana . S.P.I, should arrange to secure from the 
Arnold Ar"boretxim wood of the true P. ussuriensis . and the 
Central China type of P. calleryan a. 
21. In view- of the importance of this phase of propa- 
gating work, it is "believed well worth while for S.P.I, to 
consider the development of a definite project, dealing 
with the securing, testing and placing of a niimber of stocks 
fcti- some of our most important fruits. This would include 
the work affecting such lines of investigation as Reimer is 
conducting, as well as work having to do with hardiness of 
fruits and the general question of congeniality. 
(Signed) B. T. Galloway. 
Decemher 31, 1916. 
