going to be quite at home in that section. If 
this proves to be true, it will give them a 
fruiting cherry which should prove very accept- 
able for the Gulf States. 
You ask that we supply Mr. P. T. Ramsey, 
of Austin, Texas, with young plants of Amy^dalus 
davi di ana , and you may rest assured that we shall 
help him all we can, and supply him with such 
stock as he may be interested in, whenever it is 
available. We have, however, many requests on 
file for the davidiana and it does not at this 
lime look as if we would have any more trees that 
we can use. We are distributing this tree not 
only in California as you seem to think, but all 
over the United States and, specially in the semi- 
arid sections of the South West. The tree does 
extremely well in the last-named sections of the 
country and, while it is not all that could be 
desired in the Eastern sections, I am a little 
doubtful if it has received as good care in the 
East as it has in the West 
^^6 Sucommia ulmoides that was sent to J. R. 
Riggs, of Water loo-Murdock, Kansas, was raised 
from seed sent in by E, H. Wilson, 
We enclose a copy of our inventory card re- 
garding the jujube which failed to grow, and 
regret that it is the one which you state would" 
not be easy to get again, from Pinchow, Shensi, 
China. 
Mr. Meyer's first letter of the year was written at Ichang, 
Hupeh, on January ?5, 1918, and reads as follows: 
It is a long time since I last wrote you 
and there are very many reasons for that. You 
know probably that we are living in the midst 
of a revolution here; soldiers everywhere, loot- 
ing and burning going on in many places around 
here and of course we are under strict martial 
law. 
When we arrived here on December 15 we 
might possibly have skipped throiigh and ob- 
tained my stored baggage and the rest of the 
cleaned pear seeds and castor beans at Kingmen, 
but my interpreter had incurred on the 10th of 
December a slight inflamation of one eye which 
soon became so serious that on the 13th he be- 
came wellnigh blind and had to be led by the 
September 21, 19I8. 
