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Prince Salm 



July 1, 18.51 



Wlth exception of the.se two points I know of none other, about which 

 I' would be in doubt, My collect! on has gro^m already much througfr 

 very beautiful Speeles^; unf ortunately, I also lost a few, and of 

 these your Man, cal^arata, harbata, sulcata, nigrocalcarata, which 

 I much rennet. I , also, had Cer , viridif lorus and rufispinus- entered' 

 as bein<? in my garden^ because Your Wellborrr wanted to send me both 

 species» The Dr. Gerhardy from Dusseldorf, who saw you and spoke to 

 you,has, as he says, : sent me a collection; but, until now, it has 

 never arrived", and only God knows, what has happened to hin t 

 These happenstanee delays r ( be cause other shipments still arrive) 

 can drive one to despair. . Mr. Potts has 4 returned again to Chihuahua,, 

 and Mr, Scheer in London, expects a new shipment fron there». Of the 

 cacti, which he had reeeived in the past year,and of which he shared; 

 several Speeles, are doubtful Speeles, which^between your Echin.ocerei 



and the genug Echinocaxtus |gravltat&^ The position of the flower- 

 only can give Information here. The plant-dealer Linke fron Berlin 

 also reeeived a shipment for sale fron the sane area, and I have or- 

 dered the plants, wh ich I considered new; as I have not yet reeeived 

 them, I cannot say an yt hing about them. Our Spring was unf ortunate», 

 always eold and wet, so that all remained back in the Wardens, and,, 

 and that since my return fron Paris I could hardly pu£? order into ny 

 collection. In Paris little is available of cacti; There is a Single 

 amateur, who has a good collection, and has sone und e r s t and i ng of cac- 

 ti . Your Man, naeroneris was nore present, than the other Speeles; 

 Only, they did not know the raming, which I had given them, For us 

 in Europe, it is much to be regretted, that cacti cone to us only 

 rarely, just at the momenent , where it would be nost intere sting, to 

 reeeive them often and nany of them t For ny part I regret the nore,: 

 that the hobby for these plants has declined, as I can not progress 

 without new Speeles, - 



