Haage & Schmidt 

 18?^ March 13*h ; 

 Erfurt, Germany 



. ; TRANSLATION 



Erfurt, 13 March 187^ 



Dr. Geo. Engelmann, 



3OO3 Locust Str, St. Louis, Mo. 



Your letter of Janyary 2?th crossed ours of January l6th. Also, a few days 

 later your shipment arrived in good condition. Especially the enclosed cacti are 

 very beautiful and heilthy and we ard especially grate ful to you for sending these. 

 Chamaerops hystrix , however, even though harvested very early, looks as if the seeds 

 had been ripe for a long time and some are quite dry. Hopefuibly some of them will 

 germinate; their weight is only a quarter of that shipment we received previosly, 

 seeds collected in Europe. 



We credited you for the seeds with a round seme of ^0 Thl. or $ 30.00 and 

 deducted the $ l^+.OO we already sent you. 



We could need for next year, i. e. as soon as you can get seeds again, the 

 same amount of seeds of Pinus Elliotti as you just sent us. 



We shall try out Pinckneya pubens to see whether it can be cultivated. 



Sabal serrulata is not worth much; also it is being offered together with 

 Adansoni and S. Palmetto by the bushel from New York seed dealers very sheaply 

 ($8 per bushel). 



However, should Ch. hystrix sometimes bear many seeds which could be collected 

 by your correspondent , we should accept ap to two bushel or 25 to 30 Dollars per 

 bushel. 



Of P. australis we could use 10 to 20 pounds for approximately 2 1/2 to 3 Dollars 

 ppr pound. 



Of P. serotina and P. glabra not so much because of their greater rarity and 

 higher price. 



The other things enclosed in your shipment, especially thö cones of 3 Pinus 

 species and Vitis candicans were very interesting and we shall try to grow seedlings 

 of tte latter. Thjs species has been distributed in a few instances by the Berlin 

 Botanical Garden. Canna flaccida was interesting to us since its seeds represent the 

 genuine original species; they are completely different from the seeds from Southern 

 France. Because of the many kbxk crossings, probably none of the species are genuine 

 any more, at least not in cultavation. We immediately sowed the seeds (25/2), but up 

 to now nothing carae up even though Canna usually germinates within 10 or 12 days. 



