Rec.VIenna Jan.l, I858 

 Ans..Frankf, July 3,1858 



Dyck Dec, 22, 18 5? 



Your Wellborrr 



I had no idea where to meet or find you, when I received your 

 letter from Prankfurt. I see f that you have not yet started your 

 trip to Italy, and that you plan to take your route ove5r Vlenna. 

 I wonder, if your effort will be rewarded T It ls very doubtfull 

 In Viennakre no other cacti than those of Kr4 Pazzani (Landstrasse 

 125 )• and in all of Italy there is not a Single collection of any 

 value; several Opuntlae grow in the open, and varieties of Fleug? 

 Indiea are cultivated for their berries. - It would be of interest, 

 to posess these var eties; of whichhthose with white fruit f and an 

 asperma (with fruits without seeds) iwhich are e xc eil ent. . -~ Your 

 Wellborn cou|i do me a Service,, if you would find out in the Vienna 

 Botanical Garden, fcf (Rennwege), if the Aloe tenuifolia is still! 

 present ?' and specially, if its flower has beerr sketched ?' With me 

 this species never f 1 owered?, , and I wished much, to be able to en- 

 close it in my monograph.. 



I T widerstand the impatience, with which you walt for the 

 work of your steel-engraver in Paris. . These people work most dill- 

 gently; but,they are probably being in demand from too many parties.. 

 The work, published in Washin)ton about Cacti and raostly Opuntiae. - 

 will be very useful to rae.. I posess the inventory of the species,, 

 whichhfrom my shipment have been lost by youvand I shall replace 

 the losses in the Spring. , We have not had any Winter until now,. 

 and the thermometer has gone hardly below freezing.. My health keeps 

 upr and I can Visit my garden daily. .My plants are all healthy* Ii 

 have distributed them in such a way into different comservatories,, 

 that, hopefully, all will find a sui table place.-- With the Illustra- 

 tion, whleh you sent me for inspectiorr was one with the name Pilo- 

 cereus sp TUforgot, to say,that this drawing represents the P.. 



