2 Poselger Jan. 5» 1860 



you could do without 4 , please be kind. enough, to nake up a little 

 shipment thisjtime really early in Spring. In this I ask you, not 

 to worry about a perhaps higher- postage, but to let ne have them 

 rather per s teamer. I will gladly reimburse the postage, if only 

 I can. obtain sone of your nost interesting plants.» 



You ask about our friend. Linike ! He, unf orturately, died alrea- 

 dy in the Spring of 1858. His f ine colleotion ha s been sold , par - 

 tially "linder the band 11 , partially in an. auctiorr, I bou^ht a not 

 insubstantial part of it, enlarging ny colleotion signif icantly. 

 Most regrettabl£ is, that now there exist in Berlin only private 

 collections, and we do not have a connercial gardener any more for 

 these plant s. It will be a long tine, until a commercial gardener 

 will work up to that capacity in. Berlin. Hut Haeger in Erfurt is 

 studiously strengthening his collections but , . he too is old alrea 

 and there is no Hope, that his colleotion could be preserved after 

 his death. . Thus, only Senike in Leipzig renains, who is notorious- 

 ly unreliable». 



T T "*e little Ger , tuberöses has since fl owered often, whereby 

 the f lowers showed partly at the tips, partly below the tips of the 

 branches, and. in the latter case sometimes several appeared on one 

 branch. How this irrearularity anpears, I can not say. But one thing 

 is certain, that I saw thetj flower in their homeland always with th 

 flowers on the end of the branch^, and in such a way, that the 

 branch continued directly into the fruit-knot ( should this be the 

 ovary ? E.D..) f which even then appeared to ne as some thing quite 

 extraordinary. . 



Greeting you most heartily and in friend ship I renain ufefefr 

 füll of esteen and devotiorr Your 



H. Poselger Dr.ph. 

 Kronen Strasse No. 39 



( translated fron German script by Edgar Denisorr, April 1988 ) 



