Ried, March 28, lS?7 



Dear SirJ 



The plant s which you sent, for which I herewith express my most sincere thanks, 

 arrived here safely in good condition, and gave us great pleasure. These plants have 

 given us an insight into the luxuriance and beauty of the flora in your new horae across 

 the ocean. The wishes which you expressed in your letter, we will try to fulfill at 

 the first opportunity. Oenothera is easy to obtain here; we are poor here on oaks, i.e. 

 varieties of oaks, however we will send whatever is obtainable. Altogether, the flora 

 in the near vicinity of Ried is very poor, Cypripedium . . lecolos occurs quite lux- 

 uriantly, and several specimens will follow for America. A beautiful plant here also 

 is soldanella montana. Then Ranunculus aconitlfolius . Something can therefor be 

 written down as replacement for the kindly sent collect ion. In my vacation I am 

 thinking of going to my home in Wildshut (in the upper area of Salzburg). The environ- 

 ment of Wildshut has a very beautiful and rieh flora. Partly alpine pl-*nts in the 

 raeadows of the Salzach. Partly marsh plants, because there are many peatmoors there. 

 Drosera varieties might interest you. For our part we have no special wishes because 

 we are not familiär with the flora there. Only you can reach into the füll life. 



On the other hand we also desire European plants which occur there, in order to 

 make comparisons. Varieties of Primula e.g. would be very interesting; here there is 



only Primula elatior ; but also officinalis and farinosa is easy to obtain. If you 



would procure for us the book mentioned by you, Asa Gray's "Manual of the Botany etc.", 



we would be very thankful. As far as English is concerned, I have very good command 



of it, and am a great lover of it. Of course I read mostly fictional matters, but it 



should not be so difficult for me to become familiär with the scientific terminology. 



Prof. Palm, from whom I should send best regards, is very busy, because he is district 



school-inspector; at the educational establishment only a few hours of lectures, and is 



mostly out of town. From Dr. Scheibenzuber I reeeived a letter recently. He seems to 



feel very much at home now in Dayton. Some time ago we reeeived from hin) a small coll- 



ection of American butterflies, among them several very beautiful ones. Unfortunately 



they are not identified and Palm cannot work out the identification, because of a lack 



of help. Some of them are deceivingly sirailar to European ones. You inform me that we 



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