Loyal Valley, Mason Co. Tex. 



July 12, 1878 



Dear DoctorJ 



Today I am sending you by mail the flower stalk of a Hespero - aloe 

 Yuccaefolia Engelm, on which the leaves unfortunately are somewhat deformed, 

 because it was transplanted many times. I am also enclosing a photograph of the 

 plant, rule photographed with it, - so that you can judge the length. The blooms 

 become much larger when not grown in a pot, and in their natural location they 

 are all somewhat larger than those sent up to now. 



Since many years no one could find the plant in Texas. Only in 1877 

 a party of mine-prospectors accidently found, high up on the western dry arm 

 of the Nueces, instead of the sought after ore, in a Clearing in the cedarbrake, 

 a great number of them, all in most beautiful bloom, later on also individual 

 ones among the cedars, Where one can reach the -place only on horseback, and in 

 almost 80 miles round no water can be found excent in water holes, then only 

 very few Single specimens could be hrought along. 



I hope however to be able to send you a rooted specimen in autumn or 

 winter, and will take advantage of the opportunity to send you the various forms 

 of Yucca with roots which grow up here, in a box via R.R. to St, Louis, 



Should you have a special print of your latest treatise about the Aloe^s 

 Agave s and Yuccas I would be very pleased to receive one, so that when collecting 

 one can focus his attention especially on the new occurring forms. 



Respectfully, your devoted 

 John 0. Meusebach 



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