I shall see Mr.Farrer this evening, and will do what I can.

When I receive back my letter I will send it to you for your perusal.
After much reflection it seems to me that your best plan will be, if we fail to get Government aid, to go on during the present year, on a reduced scale, in raising new cross-fertilised varieties, and next year, if you are able, testing the power of endurance of only the most promising kind.

If it were possible it would be very advisable for you to get some grown on the wet western side of Ireland.

If you succeed in procuring a fungus-proof variety you may rely on it that its merits would soon become known locally and it would afterwards spread rapidly far and wide.

Mr.Caird gave me a striking instance of such a case in Scotland.