Regarding the surmised origin of the Black Spanish grape I know nothing 

 more detailed. The name has become more familiär since here in New Braunfels 

 the growing of grapes is being carried on more and the grapes are very much 

 sought for because of the enormous purchases of cuttings and rooted vines for 

 France. In New Braunfels it is asserted that this grape thrives best in the 

 heavy soil there and that every year brings abundant and assured harvests, 

 wherefor it is grown almost exclusively in the vineyards. In Friedrichsberg 

 in lighter, black, sandy soil, it is often subject to dry-rot (of course 

 only after experience in dry years). A^parently it is not attacked by 

 Phylloxera. Because the berries are small I have until now not srown the 

 Black Spanish up here in my vineyard, however I have now had some rootstocks 

 sent to me from New Braunfels, of which I will send you one with the next 

 package. In the package with El Pa so von will bopefully have found a small 

 plant of wild plum with roots, still fresh for planting, which I designated 

 as "Wild Peach" on the outside label. Perhaps this v^riety of Prunus , which 

 up to now has occured only up here in the granite region, is not yet known 

 to you, because as I believe, Lindheimer did not collect. The Americans 

 call it "Wild Peach" because on the skin it is thickly covered with fuzz. 

 The fruit is small, becomes- yellow when it is ripe, sweet, smells and 

 tastes very aromatic, and perhaps, through cultivation will become larger and 

 better. Size like a yellow plum, but I am told that individual plants have 

 been found on which the fruit was as large as a greengage. This variety of 

 plum grows only in bush form, mostly 1-11/2 feet high, rarely 2 - K feet. 



Together with the El Paso grapes I sent you a small box with cactus 

 and with now dried fruits of Yucca canaliculata (from specimens growing at 

 at my place of 10 - 11 feet height and 2h - 33 inch trunk circumference) . 

 The supposedly well-known to you 3 cactus: Cereu s. I^aemeri ? with five 

 colored flower and the 2 other light and dark violet flowers, were only 

 sent along to fill in. Only the one cactus with. long root, sharp whitish 

 yellowish thorns and green flower, which I have found only up here in the 

 granite region and which in k - 5 foot high bushes, is said to grow only on 

 Brady creek and higher up 100 miles N.W. from here, but down here grows only 

 to a height of 2 - 3 feet, — is perhans not yet known to you. Änyway will 

 you please let me know the names of all k cacti and to teil me if you wish 

 to have good specimens of thera with roots. 



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