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and sending out Taudwood, so far the v/ood has 
proved absolutely clean, despite the fact that 
when it came it was infested v/ith a good many 
kinds of Guatemalan scales. 
We have had an extremely severe winter here; 
in fact, one of the worst that I have experienced 
during thirty years in ?/ashington. The snow has 
"been frequent, and the ice in the River was some- 
thing even the oldest inhabitant had not ex- 
perienced. We had a grand break-up two or three 
weeks ago, and it is almost like spring novi. 
On February 1, 1918, from Ichang, Hupeh, Mr. Meyer 
wrote as follows; 
Herewith I am enclosing a letter to Mr. 
V/alter T. Swingle, concerning Citrus ichangensis . 
Would you kindly see to it that it reaches him; 
possibly a copy of it might be retained in our 
Office. 
I am also enclosing a letter of mine, to 
Mr. Edward Gilchrist, Commissioner of Customs 
here, which has been returned to me- by Mr. Gil- 
christ, since he cannot go in for any more work 
on citrus problems. 
A few days ago Mr. Geo. D. Schlosser, an 
American missionary at Ki hsien, Honan, wrote me 
that he had delivered a large quantity of wild 
pear seeds to the American Consulate-General at 
Shanghai. Have these seeds been received to- 
gether with various other seeds? T hope they 
were properly labeled. I sent a check for .$65.00 
Mex. to Mr. Schlosser on Dec. ?4, 1917. and trust 
he has received it since. The bill for these 
seeds is included in my accounts for the quarter 
ending Dec. 31, 1917. Should these seeds not be 
labeled, the enumeration on the bill might help 
out. 
I was not given a chance to inspect these 
wild pears and suspect, that a goodly number of 
Pyrus betulaBfolia is mixed with the P. callery - 
ana. The seedlings therefore should be carefully 
rouged by a person who knows both kinds. 
The Belgian missionaries at Hui hsien, Kansu, 
have been sending parcels with Eucommia seeds 
and so has a Miss Stotts at Chikungshan, Honan. 
Have these seeds arrived? The mail service has 
been interrupted here for the last weeks and 
very little reaches us, tho mail from here has 
September ?1, 1918. 
