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they are too small; around King men, however, 4 
to 5 days' inarch due northeast, we found many trees 
and I have advanced my interpreter 100 Hupeh dol- 
lars, v;hich he has "been paying out as- bargain money 
to various parties around King men, and in the early 
days of September of this year the natives will try 
to "bring to us in King men c.a. 5.000 catties of 
fresh ripe fruits and v;e will have to arrange about 
prices and about cleaning methods. 
So v/e have to be again here in early September 
' and if mt, the advance money is sT)ent in vain and 
of course no seeds will be received by anybody. 
The climate around King men is much more con- 
tinental than in Ichang, as the cold winds from 
Honan strike right down there on their way into 
Hunan. The Rev. J. S. Johnson, of the Sv,'edish- 
American Missionary Covenant, who is stationed at 
times in King men, told me that this winter the 
ice was 7 to 8 inches thick and his mandarin-orange 
trees had suffered very severely. In fact, one 
tree on an exposed place I looked at critically 
and gave but little hope for recovery except pos- 
sibly for sprouts from near the base. 
Evergreens like Ligustrum luc i duxn , Pittosporum 
tobira , Euonimus ,ia ponica , Eriobotrya ,1a ponica , and 
eupressus funebris had not suffered at all. The 
climate struck me "as being very similar to that of 
S. W. Louisiana and N. E. Texas. Rice, cotton and 
soy beans are the main summer crops, v/hile field 
and green peas, broad-beans, lentils, rape, barley, 
wheat and various strains of Brassica are the main 
winter crops. 
V/ell, this is about all about Pyrus calleryana . 
I may add that I took several interesting fotos and 
collected herbarium specimens of various types. The 
small quantity of dried-up fruits I found had no 
living seeds in them, since they had been subjected 
to seven months exposure to the elements since they 
v/ere ripe. 
If you think fit you might send Prof. Reimer 
extracts from this letter and shov; it to Dr. Gal- 
lovmy, Mr. Y/aite, and others interested in pear 
problems. 
In another letter I'll treat the Pistacia 
chinensia situation. 
On April 17, 1917, from Ichang, Kr. Meyer wrote reporting on 
pistache, wood oil, and bamboo, for v/hich accounts see the 
respective project reports. He also wrote: 
December 31, 1917. 
