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regret all three lots of this peach reached us dead, owing, 
we believe, to their having "been packed in moss which was 
too wet. Mr. Dorsett wrote Mr. Meyer on June 2, 1917, ask- 
ing him to secure more material of this peach, if possible. 
In this letter of March 1, 1917, Mr. Meyer also wrote: 
Tomorrow morning we hope to leave for 
Hsuchowfu (Anhwei) "by train, from there 
again by rail to Chengchow (Honan) v/here 
we can catch the train to Hankow and from 
there on to Ichang. 
The weather is very cold here, heavy 
frosts every night and ponds have still 
heavy coatings of ice. In the absence of 
sufficient fuel here in Shantung we find 
the inns extremely incomf ortable and the 
more so since v/e expected it to be warmer 
here. 
On March 12, 1917, we v/rote Mr. Meyer that the forest path- 
ologists of the Bureau were very anxious to secure seeds or 
plants of Pinus armandi for use in their investigations of 
the white pine blister rust, and asking him to arrange, if 
possible, to send us five or six plants of this species or 
a small quantity of seed. We wrote again on May 10, 1917, 
asking Mr. lleyer to be on the lookout for this white pine 
blister rust and, if he found it, to send in fresh mater- 
ial for the investigations of the Office of Forest Pathology. 
We enclosed a few leaves of Ribes showing the two stages of 
the disease on the host and a colored plate of specimens of 
diseased pines. On June 14, 1917. from Hankow, Mr. Meyer 
v/rote: 
December 31, 1917. 
