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PAHCHER CREEK IIURSERIIS 
Fresno, California, July 8, 1916. 
My dear Mr. Fair child: 
After an absence of a couple of weeks in Oregon and 
Washington, I am again back at my desk trying to clean 
up the mail which has accumulated during my absence. I 
had so little time when travelling that I did not have an 
opportunity of confirming the telegram which I forwarded 
to you. 
I understand that you have personally visited the 
Experimental Station where Mr. F. C. Reimer has been 
carrying on his experimental work for several years and 
that you have been very favorably impressed with the ex- 
cellent work which Mr, Reimer is doing there. I had the 
pleasure of listening to an address which he made before 
the Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen and the very 
clear and logical manner in which he went into all the 
details of the work he was doing made a deep impression 
on me. This was intensified to a still greater degree 
when I had the opportunity of visiting the station with 
him and observing for myself the thorough and capable 
work — both scientific and practical — which he has been 
doing for several years to solve the problem of overcoming 
pear blight, which has been such a serious menace to both 
July 25, 1916. 
