At this season the wild fruit here consist of a yellow black- berry or hries [illegible] good taste, a red dry raspberry to small cherry. The Chinese are very destructive to all vegetation & in order to get the cherries the cut the large limbs off. The result is there are now few cherry trees left & such hard only a sturdy growth of branches left. The flowering season is now at its height but the forest does not present any large areas of flower display owing to the great number of pine oak & older trees. There are several species of Rhododendrons now in bloom & such trees that are covered by a whiteness of large flowers. There are two species of large white Rhododendron which are visible for miles in the forest. Then there is the deep carnation tree Rhododendron, & a pink shrubby one. Smaller less conspicuous