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loaded with fruits late In the fall of the same 
yeax (1916) . 
The Davidlana peach as a stock makes very 
early bearers. 
I trust Mr. Ramsey will "be given a quantity 
of calleryana pear seed, since he is a man who 
has his heart and soul in all of these new things 
from China. 
I am verj'- ^glad that Mr. Popenoe has had so 
much success in Guatemala. In Plant Immigrants 
1?8 I see his discovery of a nev/ sp. of Persea 
in details; quite interesting: I wonder hov/ this 
coyo has escaped the attention of travellers for 
all "these centuries! "Verily, this old earth can 
"be cora"bed over a few times before all of the good 
things have been gathered in. 
In this same No. 1?8 I find that my hickory 
is called a tall tree, 40 to 65 feet. — Well, I 
never called it tall. I also did not knov/ that 
Castanea vilmoriniana occurred in Shantung, as 
is stated; T hardly think sol Mr. Wilson told ' 
me he found it in Western Hupeh and Eastern 
Szechuan. What do they say about this in Plantae 
Wiisonianae? 
In No. IPO, that has just reached me: this 
letter from Mr. .T. H. Cameron is fascinating; it 
opens one's eyes to the highlands of Central 
Africa. Lions beneath ?5 ft. heather and natives 
that worship their "tummy"; it beats old China . 
all hollowj Where on earth did Mr. Beagles find 
^^^^ Prunus glandulos a, which is pictured. -- 
Probably in some Cantonese store in San Francisco. 
Tip to this day I do not know the difference be- 
tween Prunus glandulosa , P. ^ iappnlca , P. ^japonica 
glandulosa , P. bungei and^P. humilis . ~- This 
whole lot seems to run together. 
In this Ko.lPO I think that behind the names 
of towns in China the provinces ought to have 
been placed, for instance I do not know where 
Bhanghang is (4?567) . And in No. 4?4?9 instead 
of India, Africa ought to have been written. 
Is Chung-ching the new way for writing Chungking 
in Szechuan (42533)? 
Thank you for the Farmers' Bulletin, "Drying 
Fruits and Vegetables in the Home". It is very 
'instructive and novel-reading; running, about, 
visiting movies, etc., ought to diminish when its 
suggestions are carried out. 
Your multigraphed paper, "ffihe Call of the Great 
War" reached me also. It sounds like a trumpet 
December 31, 191?. 
