Jacobi 



2 



Nov. 8, 1871 



By the way, I can only ask you, to provide US with plants,, 

 bulbs and seeds, of whatever you ffiXn get holdl of , whereby a f ew 

 dollar postage are of no consequence. Hopef ully, the paroel postap:e 

 between the German Reich and the United States- will soon be redu- 

 ced sinilarly as has been already done with letter postage.. 



Seve^al years back I obtained in an auction of the Tonet z * 



collection, as I believe, to have told you already, a^ old 



pla-nt of A, Schiip-era. ( or Gehidigera ? ???) , which had f'lowered. sHort- 



ly before in Gerit. Afte^ standing for several years with out motion,. 



it started during the summe r of 1870 to sprout f rom several leaf 



axils. One o^ these sprou.ts developed during last winter into a 



flowerir^ stem, which developed c ompletely , and produced f lowers , though 



soraewhat sraall ones. Now a leaf bud of this f "Lowe rinn* stem is deve- 



the sprouts of 



loping two plants situated below each other, and the/other leaf 

 axils are beginning to grow small fl owering stems, so that toward 

 spring around a dozen such f lowerins: stems will 1 Surround the old 

 trunk. By the way, there remains no doubt , that A. Gehidigera and 

 A.filifera are two completely different species", be cause the latter 

 is reallyv monotrop (can* t read, smudged. E.D, ) while the f irst , accor- 

 din^ to the present example, continu.es life through f lowers. 



Now far (sie) well r or today in the hope to hear soon again 

 from vou, Yours v. Jacobi 



( translated f rom German script by E. Denison, Dec. 19R8 ) 



