Jacob! J 3 Oct« 26, 1866 



to have d-B- ^ired in a big way is suf f icient • E.D..) I am e^tirely satis— 



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fied to have stimulatedr, perhaps to/called to the attention of a nore 

 conpete^t and nore capable Champion to pick up the thrown stone and 

 to exaraine it closer,. 



Our common fT~ie^ds, the eacti, I have in no way ^e^leoted, 

 though they stand f nr the moment aside« My other attention I devoted? 

 ove"r 10 years to the E chinocerei , of which I oosess a considerable 

 collection with exception of pectinati a^d its relatives, Of these I 

 have unf ortunately still not yet unearthed the eorrect method of 

 culture, they perish over time one and all., Last summe r I had rieh 

 amounts of flowers from several species-, which, unf ortunately , I did 

 not see, because I was in the campaign against the Habsburg-Lothrin^en 

 House*. Strongly flowering were; : ,£c. papilosus , procumbens, ermecanthus, , 

 B erlanri ieri • Some years back I found at Haage in Erfurt a small plant 

 as E. procumbens , seeing imraediately, that it was nisnamed;.. It has de- 

 veloped since then magnif icently and justified my ob/jection. The sec- 

 tions ovilv half as thick as with E » procum bens, and less long , the ribs 

 dif^erent, and the spin.es shorter a^d stronger. Unf ortunately, the plant 

 has not yet ^lowe^ed. As soon as this happens I will describe it and^ 

 plan to call it Ec . tenuis.. 



I also posess a half dozen interesting forms of E, setispinus» , 

 for which I am to a major part indebted to the old Baumann in Vienna,, 

 from which I also reeeived a fine speeimen of _Ec. F ondleri. The Mammila - 

 riae, mentioned in your book, are with us one and all? very #reat rari- 

 ties. Can you not share sometime some seed with us ?'' The old Fuer on 

 the Dyer is still alive but very old and fragile. He and his collec- 

 tion of succulents are there onlyv tolerated - old furniture. The present 1 

 prince has no use f or the collectiom What is there, is supposed to 

 be maintained^but nothing new will be aquired, and thus the rieh col- 

 lect! on 





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