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never been collected by any collector. The cactus cutting which I planted in 

 our garden and about which I wrote you that on March 26th it reached a new 

 height of 7 1/2 feet, again grew in the last five months about IV 1 higher? 

 the diameter remained the same. It is probably Cereus Peruvianus , which is 

 planted here in several places and which is higher than the houses next to it. 

 I studied one of them recently more thoroughly. It just so happened that a man 

 of 5»10" was standing next to it and so I had an idea as to its height which 

 I believed to be *f0 feet. The diameter 6f the trunk is about 1 1/2 foot. The 

 lower part of this trunk is easy t further up it is interbranched, sometimes 

 very much so. Auricles: not woolly, with 5 small thorns, of which the upper two 

 are hardly noticeable. The blossom I Relieve to be white. I have not yet found 

 here Perescien, Juniperus and Vitus. If one of the latter is native here, it 

 will probably be nothing else but Vitis Caribaea which I also have in my 

 Venezuelan collection. However, I shall look around. 



From the New York Tribune I see what tremendous progress the 11 far west" 

 especially Colorado is making lately, especially with regard to population and 

 wealth. If one thinks back of the times and conditions of the countries of the 

 territories west of the Mississippi when we came to St. Louis, I in 1858 and you 

 even earlier, it seems that the developments made during the last years is as 

 wonderful as the tales of from "1000 and one night". But how will things look 

 in the United States after another '+0 years? 



Mr. George Will wrote me from England that he had bought one set of my 

 Trinidad ferns and that he had sent me a package containing 220 species of 

 Ceylon ferns. Unfortunately, I see from the bill of lading that the address says: 

 \. Fendler, New Haven, Conn.". The letter to me was written in care of Prof. 

 Eaton. What you say of Eggert shows his energy and that the love for botany in 

 St. Louis has not disappeared, but is still growing. 



Best greetings to Le<;terman. I should like to have another letter from him 

 soon in order to know how things are in Allenton and what all the old acquaintances 

 are doing. I don't know whether he has received my letter and the local newspaper 

 I sent him shortly afterwards. Since that time, I found out that there is still 

 another better newspaper published here of which I also sent him a copy. Now, 

 fare well. May the could resting over your family soon be replaced by a gay bright 

 light. 



Best greetings, 

 Yours 

 A. Fendler. 



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