Bolle, Carl 
1880, January rd 
Berlin, Germany 
TRANSLATION 
Berlin, 3rd January 1880 
Leipziger Platz 14 
In a hurry: 
Dear Doctor, 
I immediately reply to your very friendly letter of the 15th of last month and 
year. The New Year is truly alarming. How auickly time goes by! But this reminds me 
that I should not fail to send you my sincerest and best wishes for the New Year. In 
return I hope you will continue your kindness towards me! 
Nothing could be more welcome to me than the profuse and detailed information 
you sent me. I learned much from it; and it is very flattering that you consider me 
worthy of receiving it. For the correction I am truly grateful. Please be lenient 
with the errors we make regarding things we live so far away from. Even a light that 
is shining here with a certain brightness must appear to be over there as nothing 
but sau reflection. For myself, I claim nothing but not being entirely unappreci- 
ative of a hobby. Longing for a knowledge of plants, especially trees, I am trying 
to create an interest for it amidst the almost general indifference, especially on z 
the part of the scientists.’ I am very curious to read your paper on Latalgen? That « 
the authorities cited by me for the name are wrong (it must be called Warder) was 
already pointed out to me by Sargent himself and I shall correct this point. However, 
the mistake is pardonable, since all records available to me with regard to this do 
not mention anything about it and I had to rely on my assumptions. How often one has 
to do this because of the little information coming in and one is fortunate that not 
all conclusions reached by oneself are wrong. 
The name Rock-Mountains (?) was mentioned tooin correspondence received from 
America. I thank you for clearing up the geography of this habitat. 
Very remarkable is the early blooming of the there. This takes 
place much later here, even in the warmer climate of Southern Germany. Near Berlin, 
the normal time is July, beginning of August, and with regard to recently planted 
even fourteen days later. Should you have again next summer an abundance of Latalga 
species, I should ask you to send me some. It is possible that this tree species 
might be of a certain importance to us. | 
I still know little or nothing about the Pinus species Ellioto _& glabra mentioned 
„Eastern states-where one 
by you, the relatively recently discovered species of the 
would hardly suspect to find them and should, therefore, be of special interest. 
Glabra which you put next to P. australis, apparently belongs to the deep south. 
How do you believe, the prior will react to the German climate?. 
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