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for information or specimens. This could "be 
worked out while I am in America. We "believe 
cooperation in this effort very desirable. 
If your Department of Foreign Exploration 
would undertake to finance this work as outlined 
above, we shall "be willing to contri"bute land and 
the time of our American staff to supervise and 
develop the ar"boretxam. If it is rot possi"ble 
for your department to assxime this responsi"bility 
you may know of someone who would "be glad to make 
the college a gift for this particular piece of 
effort. It would not only "be a great asset to 
the work in agriculture we are nov;^ doing with the 
students, "but the results v/ould be made fully 
available to your department and thus be of bene- 
fit to the IJnited States in the work you are doing. 
If this suggestion for cooperation appeals to 
you, or if you have any other, we shall be glad to 
hear from you. 
If it seems desirable that we should send a 
man with Mr. Meyer, and there is a way for arrang- 
ing finance, you can advise us direct or if neces- . 
sary cable through our New York office at 156 Fifth 
Avenue. 
On April 13, 1917, we cabled Mr. Meyer to ship iimaediately 
fifty pounds Chinese cabbage seed and one hundred pounds 
viable poppy seed. We wrote Mr. Meyer on April 1?, 1917. 
explaining that thi's cablegram was a result of a conference 
with Dr. Stockberger in which he stated that, in view of a 
threatened shortage in opium, it seemed advisable to get 
a quantity of viable poppy seed and encourage the grov/ing 
of opium poppies in this country. We added the request for 
Chinese cabbage seed in order to be able to supply the de- 
mand for this vegetable for use in backyard gardens. Mr. 
Fairchild also asked in his letter of April 17 that Mr. Meyer 
secure a considerable quantity of ginger roots for more ex- 
tensive experiments in the South. On April 17, 1917. from 
December 31. 1^17. 
