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myself a siaall glass-house a^d hope now to get 



more flowers and fruits« In the looal, rather heavy soil, ny plants 

 prospered out stand imly during the summer, unf ortunately finast 

 shows on several so stronerly, that I fear for Seriems losses. I 

 thought ^ot a tirae, that this sicknees was caused by lack cal- 

 ci™ in the soil. To correct this lack I nixed sone ohalk into the 

 earth, which ho weyer was not necessary here, as soil and water are 

 extremely rieh in calciinn. My beautif ul E. s tenon-ani though are 

 strons- here and arrew well 1 with raighty spines, however they have y 

 everyone of theiii) rust, 



At Pazzani blooraed C. camproebl oruff;. and P. wants to have 

 recopruized it a .conplete flower of an Eohinops. I have f igured 

 this plant with out doubt to the E chinocerei, and can not yet r>e- 

 cide to gruup it with the Echinops based on Pazzani* s observa- 

 tions. I want to inquire from hin, if the flower has not set seed. 

 If this is the case, pne wouiät ^ain a certain check o^ it« In the 

 outer habitus, by the way, , C. canprochlorus Stands very close to 

 c E ps.Brudfiresii , but differs t*->rouß:h th inner , soraewhat longer spi- 

 nes a^d less strong existing ribs and flat furrows... But I want 

 to teil you Pazzani 1 s description of the flower still in writing. 



The flower Stands in the raost remote, f irst areole fron the 

 center of the crown ( or "top'* ?, E. D. ) , but only one inch fron this 



Echinocer. than an Echinops, . It is nothing different, than an enor- 

 mous copy of a white, broad -leaved (Jacobi uses "leaf H always for 

 M petal rt E.D. ) flower of Echinopsis , of a imposing pioture and with 

 a strong fragrance of Jw^in. It is with the tube to 7 H long 

 a^d 5 W wide (could be 3 M » c annot read. E.D.) J.he like the Eohinopsae 

 upright and pointed" scaled tube is below 1 H , in the middle l^' 1 



center-point'. Judging fron this position it would 



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