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and Shantung Provinces in midsuinraer or early fall; 
getting 50 lbs. of seeds of Brassica ^iuncea, 
in Peking in the fall; 
getting a few authentic grafted Pei peach 
trees in early winter in Peicheng, Shantung; 
getting at least 100 lbs. of seeds of P yrus 
calleryana in Hupeh this early autumn; 
getting a few hundred lbs. of seeds of Pistacia 
chinensis in Hupeh this fall; 
getting a few hundred lbs, of good nuts this 
fall in Hupeh and Eastern Szechuan of Castanea mol - 
lissima ; Castanea henryi (which grows into a state- 
ly tree) and Castanea seguini i (a Chinese chinqua- 
pin) ; 
getting seeds of ■Da vi dia involucrata in V/estern 
Hupeh; 
getting seeds of the wild Citrus ichangensia in 
Western Hupeh; 
meeting Mr. Merrill in Manila and study in the 
herbarium there; 
investigating lytchis (v/hich freeze even in So. 
Plorida every so many years) and other So. fruits 
and crops in Kwantung and in Pukien Provinces; train- 
ing a Chinese collector for South China; 
getting fresh nuts of Aesculus chinensis for 
Professor Sargent; 
getting 100' lbs. of opium poppy seeds in China, 
for which I will need a special passport from the 
President of the Chinese Pvepublic himself and which 
he in all probability will not give, since China 
nominally does not tolerate any longer the culti- 
vation of this drug plant. 
Then Mr. Reimer wants me to meet him in Peking 
in early September this year; the University of Nan- 
king ?/ants me to visit them this spring; a Chinese 
millionaire land owner in Hunan wants me to advise 
him re crops and problems this fall. Professors 
L, H, Bailey in Shanghai and P. C. Reimer at Talent, 
Ore., want full instructions hov; to explore in China. 
My, this, is only a partial list of all that 
is in my mind just now. Is it strange that a man 
at times gets very tired? And the more so now, 
since my adopted country has seen fit to join in 
with others in this monstrous v/orld-war and we will 
get our lists of wounded and killed from nov/ on 
regularly in our lopsided and mis-information-giving 
daily and other papers. 
?/ell, all of these afore-mentioned matters v/ill 
show you that I can never finish my work this year 
and rather than overdo things again by going to 
Manila and Southern China and then having to be 
back again by Sept. 1st in Kingmen to get several 
thousands of pounds of fruits of the calleryana pear 
and seeds of Pistacia chinensis , I v/ill travel 
December 31, 1917. 
