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Brecks • is very accomodating and has done rauch for rae.but he Is 
off icially 
unable, because I have nothin^^to say, , to apply hinseif so muchr 
my cause, that he would or^anize lectures spread over the year^, to 
explore questions, whlch I have posed.. Finning here is*nt prood for 
anything; I have almost not>^ing from hira in the local Warden. One 
should not believe, that a prardener wo^;ld be so incapable.to main- 
tain his best raother (? E.D.) cultures, TArhich I wished to pursue.. 
After 2-3 raonths all is at an end every tlme« Hox^ long it takes 
e.g. fory Nymphaea alba to flower from the tirae of prermination, is 
unknown, Last year I i^a^e Finning auraerous seedlings in a basin 
for cultivation-; well, in the Spring of this year he threw thera 
all out* That is the way it went with 100 cases and raore; I thus 
apportion only, what I must have urgentlyj . every attenpt to use 
Fijnning for ray efforts ends in vexation^.'^^^s I must look, to 
change the matter to the best of my ability, as two^ useless human: 
beings,Trevianus and Finnings waste the best of resources- (the gar- 
den has $ 2,500), so that I and nobody eise gets anythir^ out of it-,, 
except several male and female cousins' of Brugwutter, of which the 
garden is amply provided,. 
CS,/ 
M'rs. Emmy Elchhorn is again not doing/well' as a few weeks ago„ 
when the applied remedies did good work; she is with the family/,and 
goes once in a while out a^ain. . Braun however,is not at all really 
welll; since he had the he w as 
Now he suffers from a rheumati sme, which draw^^ from the arm to the 
breast in the direction of the heart with pains in the breast and 
palpitations. When he feels very week, he takes Colchicum'. He is 
also very discontent with the collegium, , which during Winter is al- 
ways poor for botanists, . He has in the officinal flowers (' plante,, 
which are used for therapeutical purposes,E.D. ) only 7^ i^earers 
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