Vienna, May 31 f I876 



Dear Friendl 



With friendly Greetings to start with. 



Since your return from your trip to Europe, you will long since have set about your 

 current affairs in your present home, devot ing yourself to scientific studies, success- 

 fully following your medical practice, and with your wife at your side, to whom you will 

 not fail to give my heartiest greetings and Handshake, spend happy days together. 



I am sending you herewith through Prof. AI. Braun the Reben (?) which you yourself 

 collected last year in the Danube meadow and I am enclosing Herbst zweigen (?), which 

 teil you, that I cannot send any ripe berries (they ripen later than the cultivated 

 ones; there is no doubt that the blackbirds passionately go after the grapes. In the 

 city itself Hengl Gärtner (?) reports to me that at Rosenthal the blackbirds are very 

 numerous and he had to shoot M with the Blindbüchse (?) and could not find (?) sufficient 

 nice grapes in the Fall exhibition of the Horticultural Society. So I console you my 

 dear friend for the next year f when early enough, before the berries turn blue, but the 

 Renge (?) has already fully developed and is ready for germination, I want to (or will) 

 play the Prae venire. 



Baron (?) von Babo has made a trip at grape time, part of it with his pupils, and 

 for himself to learn of the new methods and successes, as well in the planting as in the 

 preparation of the wine. I spoke to him only upon his late return, gave him your letter, 

 which appeared to arouse his interest, even though he, as a very quiet man, remained 

 silent. There for, I hope for the best this year. 



In the enclosure I have 26 varieties of (Rebensamen) grape seeds, all from Lower 



Austria, and from the Palatinate and altogether numerous tische, for which I am 



thankful to Henzls, together with the grapes, which are for my taste alone (?). It 

 is remarkable that when one tastes some of the good varieties, one does become confused 

 in the taste of many of them, and one can no longer enjoy more of it. 



Your favorites, the cacti, were represented in this year 's large Spring exhibition 

 of the Horticultural Society, throughall genera in numerous specimens and a number of 

 species» They were from our Haupt Bazzai. 



Henzl, including the family, are well and (charaktes ?) of an Empörer 1 s administra- 

 tive adviser (privy councillor). 



Prof. Karsten called here from Berlin, the succesor to Ungers(?) had a lot to put 

 up with in the first year, how he maltreated the pupils about four different subjects 

 (or matters) of physiology, and requested Information in all of them. Later on the 

 staff of professors seriously took up the matter and the lectures had to be simplified 



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