Haage & Schmidt 

 1875 May 20th, 

 Erfurt, Germany 



TRANSLATION 



Erfurt, 20th May 1873 



Dr. George Engelmann, St. Louis, Mo. 

 3OO3 Lacuststreet. 



Dear Doctor, 



Your kind letter of February 27th was received today together with the 

 enclosed seeds and we hope you have received the seeds we sent you immediately 

 after the receipt of yours. We are sorry not to have been able to thank you 

 for your shipment earlier which contained some species which we would like to 

 have in large numbers* for the next season. We should like especially seeds of 

 Y ^cca baccata or a box of living specimens, if this is not too expensive; further- 

 more, the Pinus species from South Carolina, australia, Elliotti, serotina, gläbra, 

 variabilis, as much as you can obtain from your friends, if possibly by the pound. 



If we can't get any seeds from the Linum Berlandieri we should appreciate a 

 new shipment of seeds of this very beautiful species which we already have seen in 

 the herbarium. The Mentzelia which you sent is probably also one year old? 



With regard to your inquiries concerning our Yucca species, they came, as you 

 rightly assume from Roezl, namely angustifolia, Whipplei and spec. I and IV. Yucca 

 albo-spica and California are as far as we know garden names which originated in 

 Belgium; plants were sent from there to Italy and these spnnix again rendered seeds 

 which we distribute. Only three years ago we have received from Roezl directly throueh 

 Ortgies seeds of a Yucca albo-spica . It is a species with rather more narrow leaves 

 than filamentosa and is also better covered with white threads. We have a great 

 reserve of Yucca gloriosa ; since your order was filled during the busiest time of 

 the season it was omitted to give you the source: we are, thei^efore, enclosing again 

 fehe three samples from three different sources in Milano, Bellagio and Rio de Janeiro. 

 Our seeds of Agave vivipara come from the Jardin d'Essai du Hamma in Algeria. 6f the 

 few seeds of Agave Palme ri which you had the kindness to send us, not one has germinated 

 yet. If you can obtain a new crop of these and of utahensis and send these to us, we 

 would be very much obliged; we would also welcome Yucca Treculeana and rupicola ; 

 the first one is sold commercially, the latter one I have not yet found announced in 

 any catalogue. Do you perhaps have a correspondent in Texas who could send us directly 

 shipments of such living Yucca? In this case, the box would not have to go to so many 

 places and could be put dirdctly on a ship in New Orleans going to Hamburg. 



Could you possibly teil us through whom fresh seeds of Chamaerops Hystrix from 

 Florida could be obtained? 



Copyright reserved 



