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"I spoke withJDr, Gallowav^ long time about 
Reimer's work in Bellinghaia aha I am therefore 
pleased to find^Tlaat all" of us agree upon the 
importance of his work. It now all depends 
how many pounds of seeds we can secure for orchard 
planting in various parts of the United States. 
"I notice that several names Dr. Galloway 
gives of "botanical species of pears do not agree 
with my way of writing them; I suppose everyone 
will he looked up "before they are "being published. 
"This report opens up several lines of new 
work which will take many people many years to 
work out, such as the testing of all sorts of 
stocks for 'congeniality' experiments. It also 
means the "building up of permanent Collections 
of trees and shru"bs related to our cultivated 
species of "bush and tree fruits. Too little 
has been done in these lines!" 
The following are extracts from Mr. Pairchild's letter of 
November 21, 1916, to Mr. Meyer: 
"I cannot understand why you think that 
you have plenty of time to get seeds of P yrus 
calleryana from Ichang this year after making 
your trip to Peking and Jehol but I suppose 
you linderstand what you are talking about; you 
generally do. 
"I have just received a letter from Reimer 
who points out that they have had much better 
success with the planting of pear seeds in Jan- 
uary than any other time. I wrote him that I 
did not believe you would get any pear seeds 
through to him by that time. Did you promise 
him any as early as January or February?" 
In a letter of November 21, 1916, from Peking, Mr. Meyer 
wrote: 
"We are now negotiating with carters to 
take us to the wild pear groves near Ma Ian yti, 
2-1/2 days by carts from here. The same place 
where the wild monkeys are living which I once 
tried to get," 
In a second letter of November 21, 1916, from Mr. Meyer in 
Peking, he transmitted through the Legation twelve large 
December 31, 1916. 
