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Ree. Oct. 30 

 Ans. Feb. 25. I 866 



Most honored Sir ! 



Your esteemed letter of June 2^ of last year arrlved on Aug. 

 3, and we are most obliged to you for the enclosed seeds of seve- 

 ral new species of cacti We shall sow them only In the Spring* so 

 as not to lose any by sowing Wem too late in Winter, bat we dld 

 test some of C. gjganteus ri*ht away, and must confirm your appre- 

 hensiorr.that they would not germinate any more. We prepared imme- 

 diately a shipment aoeording to your desire for you, . consisting 

 of as many conifers* as we had at the time on hand? in good seeds,, 

 and shall in the Spring transmit another shipment, wheri a new har- 

 vest of all species will he available Ahout the handling of the 

 case we wrote to Prof. Mettenius.but did not reeeive an answer fron 

 him; he was possibly absent in a spa. We, therefor. shipped the 

 case directly through the Messrs. Janes R.Mac Donald & Co. in Ham- 

 burg, and pa# the freight fron he-e to New York for lt. Doench,. 

 though he was here during the expositlon.did not visit us, most 

 likely through lack of time. He could not have taken the case with 

 him very well, and thus the route taken by us will get you into 

 possessio» of the shipment in the fastest way with out causing 

 hirrher expenditures-. We enclosed further four assortments of 

 flower seeds, which, even if you your seif will sow only a little, 

 will hopefully be not undesired by you^or further distribution to 

 amateurJfriends. We could not comply this time with your wish for 

 a flower of Leuchtenbergia .but we hope, that it will becorae pos- 

 sible "ext year. 



Of the cacti described in the Bounary Survey, most have not 

 yet corae into europaean collections, a few in a few speeimens are 

 known.but still very rare and only a very few species are gene- 

 rally di stributed. . 



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