While Mr. Meyer can douttless secure seeds of many of 
the forms of Pyrus which Mr. Reimer wants, Mr. Reimer's 
familiarity with the v/hole situation might make it very 
desirahle that he he made a collahorator of the Department 
and assisted in every way to make an investigation of the 
pear species of China. Mr. Meyer could doubtless assist 
him with advice and counsel as to localities to visit and 
people to see, and it is important, since the pear season 
is at hand in China, that Mr. Meyer should visit Corvallis 
and Talent, Ore., and confer with Mr. Reimer as soon as 
possible regarding such a trip. 
The bamboo groves already established in America 
and the fact that there are wide differences between the 
palatability of their shoots, some of which have begun to 
be sold as a vegetable in Georgia, coupled with the fact 
that there are large areas in Kwantung province covered 
with bamboos and specially fine flavored sorts in the 
regions of Canton, make it highly desirable that the bamboos 
of southern China be studied and living rhizomes of the 
various sorts secured. 
The success of rice culture in California is intimately 
associated with that of earliness, and Mr. Meyer should make 
an investigation of the rice varieties of southern China 
and get for these California experiments any early maturing 
sorts of good quality which can be found there. 
July 25, 1916. 
