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might get soinev/hat sordid, like so many an elderly 
fellow, especially those in Government employ. 
High pay has no special attraction for him, but 
he likes to be left alone in his investigations. 
Voila tout, as our French friends are in the 
habit of saying. 
Same day; 5 P.in. 
A fev/ hours ago I delivered to the local 
P. 0. here a small wooden box, made to order, ad- 
dressed to the American Consul-General at Shang- 
hai, marked D.A. ?9 and containing 1? fruits of 
the wild Citrus ichangensis , ?455a, and some fruits 
of a smooth variety of Yang tao, ?456a. How these 
specimens will arrive after their long Journey in 
winter time I have no idea. It only is an attempt, 
like so much in life is. Mr. Swingle might be 
given most of the citrus fruits, but we should 
also plant out a few at Chico for seed-bearing 
purposes. 
I am highly pleased with the Yang tao and 
the more T see of them the more do I come to the 
conclusion that it is a coming fruit for the 
Southern United StatesT The fruits keep well 
into winter, they ship well, especially after 
having been subjected to a few frosts. They are 
of excellent flavor, being a combination of 
gooseberry, rhubarb, pineapple and guava. They 
have the habit of setting one's teeth on edge, 
just like DineaDples and blueberries do and they 
are laxative. Only the vines are not very hardy. 
Where one finds them grow well, one notices coir 
palms, loquats, lucidura privets and bamboos 
around the farmsteads. Zero temperatures may 
hurt them badly, I am afraid. The plants also will 
have to be grown like muscadine grapes, that is, 
on high arbors and they might have to be bruised 
to make them bear heavy. In the wild state at 
least I noticed that plants subjected to strong 
mountain winds that tv.'isted them around at times 
bore much heavier than those growing well 
sheltered. I am sure that in the rolling sections 
of the Carolinas, Georgia, northern Florida, etc., 
where loquats survive for ten or more years the 
Yang tao will do well and of course in many parts 
of California it should thrive too, 
I am now specially trying to get wild Tchang 
lemons for Mr. Swingle. He wrote Mr. Edward Gil- 
christ, Commissioner of Customs, at Ichang, under 
date of July 11, 191?, to get him fruits and her- 
barium specimens of wild Citrus ichangensis , but 
December 3l, 1917. 
