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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



received by the new comei-s, as a man with knowledge and 

 experience of the country. He went with them to Comal 

 Creek and when the city of Neu Braunfcls was founded here 

 in the spring of the following year, renouncing all other claims 

 to land, he asked of Prince Solms for himself a spot of ground, 

 small and worthless, but charmingly situated upon the steep 

 bank of the incomparably beautiful Comal Creek, and here 

 he built a little cabin and began now, with more leisure and 

 convenience than he had ever before enjoyed in Texas, to 

 explore systematically the rich and, for the most part, still 

 unknown flora of the country around him. 



"He was soon convinced, however, that he could not col- 

 lect plants effectively and at the same time conduct his do- 

 mestic affairs properly, however simple they might be. If, 

 for example, he returned home of an evening all tired out with 

 plant-collecting, he still found it necessary to prepare his own 

 supper; if he tore his clothing among the thick bushes of the 

 river forest, he himself must take up his needle and thread 

 and repair the damage; if he needed a clean shirt, he had to 

 go down to the river and wash it. He chose the right means 

 to thoroughly remove all these inconveniences of his lonely 

 bachelorhood. He sought for himself a consort and found 

 her in a daughter of one of the recently ari-ived immigrants. 

 The cabin on the Comal* has proven sufficiently large for 

 two and everything goes on therein according to wish, though 

 in primitive simplicity." 



^ This account by Roemer, though inaccurate in some par- 

 ticulars, represents fairly well the difficulties under which 

 Lindheimer labored at this time in the midst of his botanical 

 work. He was married to Eleonore Reinarz of Aachen at 

 San Antonio in 1846, and two sons and two daughters re- 

 sulted from this union, all of whom are still alive. 



Lindheimer and Roemer made many botanical excursions 

 together during 1846 and the value of the latter's collections 



* Though a new and more commodious home was later erected beside 

 the "cabin on the Comal" to meet the exigencies of an increasing family 

 this httle log hut of pioneer days long remained as the oldest building in 

 New Braunfels. The accompanjnng picture is from an aquarelle by Mr. 

 Henry E. Peipers, a son-in-law of Lindheimer; copied by permission. 



