Ad; Häage Jun. . Erfurt March 12, 1860 



Bonored Gentleman I 



Düring your last presence here you had occasion to nromise me 



several cactij since then V mailed to yoir rayvcatalogue of ca&i for 



1858 and 59 by book-maill I do not know, if you received thenr, I al- 



ways hoped to be honored by an excha^ge. 



Couli you now perhaps mail some good seeds, I would be mucHr ob- 



liged. also Mam . barbata , macromeri s , vi vi para and such would be mucft 



desired, as well as young plant s of Echinocactus - calif ornicus or 



seeds of them.. 



This Summer several Echinocerei flowered. magnif ice_jitly,, one. 



which I received as papillosus from Linke,fully 3 weeks with 5 large 



yellow flowers with brown-red stamens (? E.D.) in flower.also Leuch- 



tenberg-ia -principis brou^ht 3 flowers, of which one set fruit and in 



December a mature pod with ripe seeds-; I sowed of them and tesncs al- 



ready plants apüearv as I heard , that you have great inte^est in the 



SovtyOin 



seeds and their ßrerminatiorr, I e^close\this letterfwas. 



I was much surprised by the flowers of some peruvian Echinocac- 

 tus, which irrere more columnar than conpressed , ball-shaped, covered in 

 part by tightly spaced black-greyv partly with white-grey spines,, 

 producing small carmin-red flowers, forming alraost a wreatb on the 

 apex of the plants, up to 20; this was in November, I pollinated the 

 floitfers, which- developed light green fruit, but which later feil off. 

 Now new buds show on some nlants and I hope, to still- obtain seeds-, 

 These plants diverge definitively from the other Echinocaoti ". . 



I am always prepared for any exchange of plants as well as- seeds, 

 and look forward to favorable news with pleasure.. 



With the prreatest estimation I sinn most devoted 



Heinrich Ad : • Haage jun.. 



I can deliver seeds of Echin.opsi s_ 

 salpigophora chri Status / Mislevi 

 and diverse EchinocactP 







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