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On October ?B, 1916, Mr. Meyer wrote in more detail as fol- 
lows regarding his visit to Prof. Reimer : 
"In the evening of September 8th I left 
Portland for Talent, Ore., v/here I got the 
next day at 10:40 a.m. I went straight away 
to the Southern Oregon Agricultural Experiment 
Station and met there Prof. P. C. Reimer, Mr. 
McCorraick, his assistant, and an entomologist, 
Mr. Davidson. Prof. Reimer 's parents are Ger- 
mans, but he is "born in Michigan; he used to 
Toe for a long time in North Carolina, where 
he v/orked at the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion at Raleigh on Vitis rotundifolia (vide 
his "bulletin 'Breeding Rotundifolia grapes', 
issued May, 1914) . 
"We spoke of course straight away about 
his pear experiments. First of all about Pyrus 
' calleryana ; of this pear there are two forms, the 
one as grov/n in Oroville and obtained from S. E. 
China and the other the Ichang form, as culti- 
vated in the Arnold Arboretum. About resistancy 
to cold temperatures; well, in Boston this Ichang 
form has been growing now for several years and 
apparently never froze. In Talent both forms 
withstood 40 Fahr. above January, 1914. 
"Professor Reimer 's ideas are., that once 
we have obtained a species of pear or a variety 
which is imraiune to blight, we simply plant such 
a form in regular orchards. After they have be- 
come well established one buds , in the fall of 
the year (early September )7~~from 5 "to 8 of the 
main branches with the desired variety and this 
insures one at least a trunk , a root system and 
the main framework of^a tree v/hich is immune to 
blight . It now only requires close inspection, 
during these times that blight breaks out, to 
prevent any spread at all by removing and by 
burning immediately any infected branch or twig. 
As i.t i_s now, even if a large branch has been cut 
out, often the main trunk or the roots are in- 
fected already and, as insects carry the virus, 
it spreads again from tree to tree. 
" "Should blight once have been driven out 
of an inoculated locality, there is no reason why 
it should return again, assuming of course that 
sufficient quarantine rules are observed. What 
about native vegetation affected with blight, 
I asked? Yes, said Prof. Reimer, that i_s again 
December 31> 19l6« 
