San Antonio, March 8, '77 



Dr. G. Engelmann f St. Louis 

 Dear Siri 



I have received your friendly letter of the 25th. and was very busy at the time 

 because this Winter I sent over 200,000 cuttings to France. Regarding leaves and 

 flowers, I will try to catch up with your request to send you some, as soon as 

 possible, however I cannot promise that everything will be carried out well, 

 because the various kinds grow 20 to 30 miles apart and I cannot go myself but 

 have to ask friends to take care of it. Tt is your opinion that the Bl.spanish 

 are the same as Herbemont or Masson, which 1 would doubt. From a wine-gardner in 

 eastern Texas 1 received an off er of 20,000 cuttings of Herbemont on my inquiry in 

 France this species was refused, besides I kno^ that this gardner achieves only a 

 white wine from his very dark gr^pes, ^hereas the Bl. sp. distinguish.es itself 

 just through its extremely dark and rieh color. Of the Mammll laria fismata ? I 

 will send you a small speeimen by mail and also a few others, na mely also an 

 Agave from the vicinity of Fort Stockton and some seed of Echinocactus Wislizenii 

 and longitramatus, so it will be possible for you to grow some of them, even 

 though not as large as I have, because they grow very slowly. Of the first I have 

 a speeimen 2 f 10" high and 2 f diameter, of the latter 1* 8" by l 1 3". 



You have there the famous Shaw's Garden which, as I have been informed, is 

 desirous of obtaining such things. Perhaps I could deliver some because we now 

 have direct connection via railroad. 



Regarding the El Paso grape, I have been thinking if the yearly artificial 



flooding of the ground would prevent the development of Philoxera , on the other 



hand I hear that the M ustang grape has this insect and still grows luxuriantly. 



Pespectfully, your 



Otto Ludwig farrer3 kraüter 

 Could you perhaps give me the Information, which of our ferns ? has the name 

 Ch^ilanthus Lindheimerii, Mr. Lindheimer, whom T a^k^d, does not Vnow, 







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