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Letter of Mov. ?1, I916. About Prof. 
Reimer wanting pear seeds before February. - 
Yes, he told me about this and I said I 
would try, tho ' I could not tell him for 
sure that I would be able to get them. 
The jujubes you speak about, harvested 
at Ghico, reached me all right. They taste 
v^ell, having more flavor than the larger ones 
we have here in China. T gave some to other 
people to sample and some to a few children 
and everyone liked them. So the jujube has 
come already into its own. This lye treat- 
ment may possibly displace the slicing with 
little knives. This would surely save us 
lots of labor. 
I surely am interested in Mr. Popenoe's 
discoveries of new sub-tropical fruits. I 
wonder how far north this large-fruited haw- 
thorn will be able to thrive I I see your note 
about discovering new parasites possibly; well, 
the fewer the better! 
Letter of Dec. ^?, 1916. It would be 
fierce if somebody should find something in 
these seeds of Pinus bungeana and burn them 
up. I certainly hope that this idea "kill 
and burn" is not going to obsess our path- 
ologists. If s£, you cannot count any longer 
on me staying in the Service } 
I have not seen as yet any disease on this 
white-barked pine, but will try to inspect some 
groves before I go South. If only these In- 
spectors, with their often very limited knov^ledge 
of plants and of localities, will remember that 
the white-barked pine has ^ needles in one socket 
and not ^, like Pinus strobus; it therefore belongs 
into a totally different class of pinesl 
As regards shipping all material to Washing- 
ton first, for inspection; well, we all know what 
that means 1 Much of my stuff will have to be 
carried across the continent two times.--! really 
thought that in a place like San Francisco there 
would be opportunities for thorough examination. 
I am very sorry to see that I am mistaken in this. 
I ifiee your remarks about small fotos. Is no 
enlargement possible for fotos of interest, like 
it used to be? I cannot quite understand this 
total change of front. When I left you said that 
small fotos could be enlarged, provided they had 
been given time exposure, and now it seems as if 
even such have no value any longer. - As regards 
December 31, 1917. 
