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North again this fall, but I hope Mr. Huston 
will be also to do this work for us. He is an 
ex-student of the University of California, has 
been in the Forestry Service for a term, and is 
serious, yet enthusiastic. I have told him how 
to pack and ship, via Diplomatic Pouch, and I 
hope he will make it a good job, 
I suppose I'll be able at last to break up 
here and go further south, tho' I have so many 
small things to do that it seems as if one could 
never leave. 
Since the l6 cases with seeds have left Kobe 
however, I am once more a freer man, 
Sixteen varieties of flowering cherries were received from the 
Yokohama Nursery Company on March 13, 1917 « The material 
reached us in fairly good condition and has been grafted on 
stock at Yarrow.) The next day, February 9, 1917. Mr. Meyer 
wrote as follows to Mr. Bisset: 
These last times I have been sending off 
large quanti€ies of seeds of walnuts, chestnuts, 
o „ jujubes, davidiana peaches, etc. In a letter to 
?n IQ?/ "^® ^^°^ ^^' ^airchild, dated Dec. 2P, 1916°, 
ifO, 1910 serious suggestions occur that the Federal Hor- 
project ticultural Board may possibly discover danger- 
report, Q^g fungous diseases in these seeds and destroy 
them. Should this happen, you as v/ell as I know 
that our work will from then on assume new forms. 
For my part it will consist in the collecting of 
some small samples and of herbarium material and 
our stations will slowly be reduced in size and 
in staffs for lack of sufficient material, I 
personally also will send in an application for 
resignation and allow a botanical collector to 
take my place. (Vide my letter to Mr. Fairchild, 
dated February 8, 1917.) 
However, should matters be somewhat easier, 
I am willing to try to collect more seeds this 
summer and fall and I would appreciate an early 
memorandum from you, like the one of February ?3, 
1916, concerning seeds that are wanted in quantity. 
Mr, Bisset replied to this letter on March ?6, 1917, as follows: 
December 31, 1917. 
