6. 
REGENT VISITORS. 
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Mr. Eonrai Capellmann of the Aus t r o -Hungar i an 
Embassy. He obtained, copies of the bulletin on yautias, 
dasheens and tares to send to his Government and also re- 
quests tubers for propagation. 
NEW YORK. Mr. Arthur Woods, President of the Colima Lumber 
Company , 1 Park Ave . , N.Y., which controls 45 , 000 acres of 
timber oak land in Mexico. He has engaged the temporary 
services of Mr. L. L. Zcok, of the Office of Corn Investi- 
gations, for the purpose of starting experimental plant- 
ings of various kinds to determine what can be grown on the 
deforested areas which are 7000 feet above sea-level. He 
will go to Mexico about the first of May. 
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Mr. Rosenbluth of the Forest Service has 
returned, from the investigation of forest conditions along 
the Yangtse River which he undertook on his way back from 
the Philippines where he has "been associated, with Mr. Whit- 
ford of the Philippine Bureau of Forestry. 
PORTO RICO. George Armstrong, member of the Porto Rico Assoc- 
iation. He is interested in the planting of a mango plant- 
ation and the grafting of seedling mango trees with imported 
East Indian varieties. 
RUSSIA. Mr. Theo Kryshtof ovich , of the Russian Government 
Agricultural Commission, is visiting America for the pur- 
pose of finding out what American agricultural methods, 
machinery and plants it would be worth while to introduce 
into the Russian steppes where he has spent a good many 
years of his life. He makes his headquarters at 3059 Mag- 
nolia Ave., St. Louis. He has been particularly interested 
in the hardy American fruits originated from our native 
specie-s and he believes they would be hardier on the steppes 
than the European forms. He informs us that there is a col- 
lection of European grape varieties made by Mr. Constantine 
Meregovsky for the Russian Government located near Yalta, 
Crimea; also that Mr. Meregovsky has in St. Petersburg an 
unpublished collection of colored drawings of grape varie- 
ties of Europe. 
