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proprietors, their respective wives and sister, manifested the 
traditional Teutonic interest in cacti and aided me very much in 
work. The gentlemen were constantly making inquiries 
among their patrons, calculating to aid in the work, thus securing 
ee interviews and invitations from planters and others. 
E.H.F. 
these was Mr. chultz who had formerly 
been eonnected with the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, stationed at Florida and Panama and now director of the 
provincial nursery at Tucuman. Upon expressing my surprise 
that I had not heard of him at Tucuman he further astonished 
me with the fact that a well- managed experiment station whose 
in Argentina and as they had expected him to come to Tucuman 
they had made preparations for him at the station but that the 
person never showed up. He exacted from me the promise that 
short columnar cactus and a large scarlet-flowered begonia was 
nea One of the most prolific stations, however, was 
Mojotor 
Having packed my live and other finished material and shipped 
ber 
one of the Leach estates. At Calilegua I oe my bag ata 
little red hotel, stating that I wanted a room and started out to 
he, whom I found without difficulty. After 
and en. r. 
Sm He nade Where is your bag?’’ When I told him it 
was down at the hotel and remonstrated that I did not wish 
