Horticultural Board InsT)ectora, we have secured 
a very promising chinquapin from the South, which 
may "be valuahle as a resistant stock. We are not 
familiar v/ith your Gastanea sequinii . It may al- 
so -Drove valuable as a stock. This is your No. 
?459a (SPI 45949). Unfortunately most of these 
nuts were decayed. Some had sprouted, and these 
we shall save. Others had some new kinds of in- 
sects, so that we had to put all of them not only 
in the detention house "but cover them with' v/ire 
screens, in order to satisfy the^^|ispectors. 
Evidently, from your letter, curse of war is 
reaching out even into remote parts of the world. 
We g-eatly regret that you have "been tied up and 
trust that matters will adjust themselves so that 
you can move about once more. This would appear 
rather dou"btful from all indications as to con- 
ditions in the Orient. 
Mr. Pairchild is away and will pro"ba"bly "be 
a"bsent for a nura"ber of weeks. Yesterday we re- 
ceived through him a "big "box of rhizomes of 
Savannah bamboo. It- is the finest lot of rhizomes 
of this wonderful bamboo that we have yet received. 
When Mr. Bisset and I were in the grove something 
over a year ago, we secured some rhizomes after a 
little difficulty, but unfortunately we have not 
been able to get many plants from them. We are 
going to handle the rhizomes here in order to 
avoid tjrobable infestation of the mite and a new 
bamboo" scale at Brooksville. I presume Mr. Fair- 
child has v/ritten you about the mite he found 
there last year. 
Mr. Popenoe has been back for a number of 
weeks and is nov/ in California, His avocado 
introductions are being handled here and at Yar- 
row. We have nursed them here until assured of 
saving the authentic set he desires to have 
fruited out. There are twenty-three numbers in 
all. We now have at Yarrow something like R,00a' 
or 9,000, possibly 10,000, stocks ready for bud- 
ding. We have already budded several thousand and 
are budding more as rapidly as we can secure bud- 
wood of the rare sorts. The avocado does not 
thrive under glass, so that the securing of buds 
here in' our little houses has been rather a slow 
job. However, we are glad that we have been 
able to bring through one complete set and have 
provided Mr. Simmonds at Miami with a complete 
set. It is rather encouraging, too, to find that 
we are now getting to a point where we are cutting 
September ?1, 1918. 
