been leaving by an occasional steamer. I know 
theiEfore little or nothing whether shipments 
have reached our Consulate at Shanghai, with . . 
the exception of the wild pears from Mr. 
Schlosser, of v/hich Mr. Sammons wrote me and 
sent me the bill, which had been presented to 
hira. 
As regards some things I had in mind to 
do on my last trip, I am presenting the fol- 
lowing: 
For the collecting of quantities of wild 
chestnuts I v^as too late; the supervision of 
wild pear collecting and cleaning and the wait- 
ing for Prof. Reimer at Kingmen are to blame 
for that. 
T noticed plenty of Endothia parasitica 
in cultivated as well as in wild Castanea mol - 
lissima right from Ichang to beyond Hsing shan 
hsien. On some places it was very serious, 
especially one day's journey West of Ichang in 
cultivated trees and two days' lourney N. W. of 
Hsing shan hsien in wild trees. Please com- 
municate this to Dr. Shear. 
I got some wild chestnuts tho ' for which 
please see No. ?458a and ?459a. 
Of Davidia involucrata I only saw a few trees 
and these had no fruits on them. The district 
where they seem to be more numerous is South of 
Patunghsien, where I did not go to, as the revo- 
lution in Hupeh had commenced already. (They 
murdered the magistrate of Patung a few weeks ago.) 
^^i^<^ Citrus ichangensis , which was one of my 
main objects on this last trip, proved to be so 
rare, that I saw only three trees on the whole 
iourney and only one bore fruits. Of the last I 
have sent 1? fruits in a box from Hsing shan 
hsien on Nov. ^7, 1917. an^ a small package of 
cleaned seeds T despatched from here by R'g'd 
sample post on Jan. 30, 19IP. They bear the 
number ?455a. This wild Ichang lemon may be 
possibly the very hardiest of all true citrus 
species, tho' I am afraid it does not stand very 
low temperatures. Possibly something like 10 F. 
Concerning yang tans, I am amazed at the 
great difference in looks between the smooth and 
the hairy varieties. Which is the one that Mr. 
Coolidge from Pasadena sent in to our Office and 
of which Mr. Stuntz writes me under date of 
October ?5. 1917? 
Yang taos will be grown in the So. States 
like Muscadine grapes in the near future. 
September 21, I918. 
