It was evident, therefore, before Mr. Meyer sailed, 
that this project would be modified by the discoveries of 
Mr. Reimer, which opened up an entirely new and urgent op- 
portunity for work which was planned as incidental only 
to his South China explorations. It was contemplated that 
Mr. Meyer's work in the pear regions of north and central 
China would make it unnecessary for Mr. Reimer to visit 
China at this time. 
On September 14, 1916, Mr. Meyer wrote us from Port- 
land, Ore., regarding his visit to Mr. ^eimer, as follows: 
"My trip to Talent, to investigate Prof. 
F. C. Reimer' s work, has proven to be extremely 
interesting. Later on I will write a full re- 
port on all that I have seen while journeying 
through this big lB.nd of ours, but this much I 
will say novi: that Prof. Reimer is the first 
man in the world to test systematically all 
kJiQxm species of Pyrus and all cultivated var- 
ieties of pears obtainable in his experiments 
concerning susceptibility or immunity to fire- 
blight. His idea of finding a root and a trunk 
that are immune is an excellent one, for with 
these two factors blight cannot be carried over 
from one year to another in the orchards and by 
being vigilant and removing affected branches 
from the crown one can pretty well control this 
blight. 
"He has found that most of the wild species 
of pears with pubescent foliage are strongly sus- 
ceptible to bligiht, like Pyrus salicifolia . P. 
nivali s. P. bet ulaef ol i j a . etc. 
"One species of pear is apparently totally 
immxine and that is my P yrus ussuriensis ; he made 
200 inoculations at eight different dates and 
not one tookl '^his refers especially, to SPI 21880. 
PTofT^eTSTef stated that this one introduction 
is worth all of my work abroad I 
December 31, 1916. 
