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You should get for us quite a lot of Ulmus 
pumlla . You were somewhat surprised when I asked 
you to collect 25 pounds of this seed during your 
last trip, but I feel like asking you to collect 
50 pounds on this trip. Certainly send us as 
much as you can for v/e have lots of requests for 
it and will "be able to distribute trees by the 
thousand, where they are much needed. Then, Mr. 
Borsett has mentioned to you in his letter that 
you should make a special effort to get the large 
Chinese peach. Many of our cooperators have -been 
badly disappointed at our inability to supply them 
with propagating material of this peach and I v/ould 
strongly urge you to make a strenuous attempt to 
get budwood for us. 
The next thing- would be to get seeds of any 
of the wild pear forms, or wild forms of any of 
our cultivated fruits for the stock problem is 
beginning to be a very interesting one and one 
that we believe will demand a great deal of at- 
tention within the next few years. Professor 
Reiraer, with his work on Pyrus ussurlensis , has 
brought forcibly to the attention of our growers 
the fact that they may find wild stocks for our 
cultivated fruits superior to the forms that we 
are now using. We need a better stock for plums 
_and cherries than v/e nov/ have. There is also 
quite a demand at the present time for hardy 
English walnuts, and, in fact, for nut trees of 
all sorts. We would, therefore, strongly urge 
you also to be on the lookout for anything along 
these lines, or, in fact, anything that will help 
reduce the cost of living for our people. 
With kindest regards from all, and hoping 
that this letter will find you in the best of 
health, I remain. 
Mr. Meyer's answer to this letter was dated June 23, 1917, 
at Hankow, and reads as follows: 
Your letter of March 26, 1917, reached me 
here a few weeks ago and I am glad to get your 
hopeful viewpoints concerning plant inspection 
and plant quarantine. A fellow out here gets 
out of contact with home-doings and when he re- 
ceives letters from his own Chief, that the large 
quantities of seeds he has sent may all have to 
be burned, he at times thihks it is better to ac- 
cept another position where one gets more satis- 
faction out of one's work. 
December 31, 1917. 
