Geyler, H. T. 



1873 i November llth 



Frankfurt, a. M.y Germany 



TRANSLATION 



FRankfurt, a.M., 11 November 1873 



Dear S ir, 



I have to ask your forgiveness for not having answered your kind letter 

 earlier and to thank you for the Information it contained. I looked up the 

 reference, only Emory's Report U.S. Mexican Boundary Gommission I was unable to 

 find, even with the help of Dr. Stücker. Shortly after I received your letter, 

 Prof. Carl Cramer from Zürich sent me another cactus which he had grown for 

 years in his window and which regulär ly grows such proliferations. Prof. Gramer 

 was kind enough to send me such a fruit. Unfortunately, it crumbled; the buds 

 he sent with it I planted at the Bot. gard. under Mr. Ofer's care as well as in 

 my window and they are doing well so that we may hope to grow some such shapes. 



I took the liberty to copy some of Cramer 1 s reraarks: "F©r several years 

 I cultivated a cactus which regularly produces the deseribed monstrosity, which 

 produces at the top> of the fruit slightly sloping buds which may be used for 

 reproduction; my cactus has been bred from such a bud. Also the stem parts 

 produce a great number of slightly sloping buds which are tightly laced at the 

 base which serve for its reproduction, while other buds, not as tightly laced 

 do not get severed but are getting branched. The stem of the plant seems to be 

 highly h^liotropical, however, this point has to be re-examined, since I am 

 not sure that this is the case. The plant cannot stand our winter." 



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