Re<2. Prankfurt 



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Dyck July 12, 1858 



Your Wellbomr 1 s 



very welcome letter of the 3rd I have received, and thank you 

 most obligingly for all you communicated about the trip to Italy:: 

 I shall get in contact with the garden in Venice«. 1', also, recei- 

 ved ( without news from where) the volumes 1, 2, and 3 of a work 

 by Dr. Bigelow (the last concerning cacti) ; also a brochure about 

 the Flora of Förth-western Mexico, with many courections by your 

 hand, and, which probably came from you; But it does not seem to 

 be the report,of which you write in your letter, because the litho- 

 graphic line drawings of tab UM to XOII 1 do not represent cacti.. 



The shipment of Opuntiae of last year f s fatalities must have 

 arrived in St. Louis long ago, and I ask you upon your return to 

 announce, what perhaps may still be missing f . I had with the helpi 

 of the descriptions, which I find in your report (and, which I have 

 not found the time to study thoroughly) ) to solve all kinds of 

 doubts, which bother me and are most disagreable. . 



There remains only for me, to wish you a good trip and returnr 



to St. Louis ! And, truly, such a wish 1s not just a formality^, 



when one speaXs of a trip in that advemturous land. — IT, also 



ask you, to think of me at your returrr. You have seen my garden». 



With the exception- of the Mamlllariae, which degenerated in the 



old gardens of Europe,and which we must introduce anew from the 



homeland, everything grows well; The species are correctly deter- 



mined^, and only new supply from the homeland is missing?, to cor- 



rect the Classification of the faraily*. 



July 12» »As I was about to mail this letter yesterday, I re - 

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ceived your letter of the 6th with tkm valuable essays about cacti, 

 which you had the kindness to give me. U had only time to lea^p. 

 quickly through theiir; the steel engravings are superb (actuallys: 



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