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so many wrongly identified species run around, that one gets corrfu- 



sed. I have seen oaks as rubra, , aquatica, falcata , coccinea ^, palus~ 



£rl&, tinctoria in famous Wardens', which quite certainly were all! 



just rubra.. With Crataegus it is better, as there are in Europa 



a large quantity, and even if they are wrongly identified:', thi s carr 



be easily cotrected through original specimens in large herbaria», 



or at least* according to With oaks this is difficult,, 



because they produce late (acorns, E.D.), and the herbarium specinens 



are not always useable f or identif icatiom . Even worse is the situa - 



tion for american willows and Rubu£», which are almost entirely mis- 



sing fron the gardenff or are europaean speoies with american names.. 



It may be possible to transport cuttings or root-sprouts in Winter 



of Rubus . . Vacciniuirr ; Androme&a, Azaleas, etc., seem to me to be more 



in culture in Europe*. Of poplars certainly several are missing irr 



our gardens-, and equally I would not depend on the aldersr and bee - 



ches.. We are missing araericanr f oliage-trees from many localities, , 



trees 



but we are better off with' needle-w&Käx ,and I see with pleasure 



your species in catalogueff. One can then äepenä 9 that they are ex 



loco natali (Latin:: from the home-ground. E.D. ). If the oaks of the TT 



North, the South, the individual States had their own names, the bu- 



more 



siness of the dealers would be larfrer- and we would obtain'/f orms.. 

 Thus, I do not want to find fault with the method of Poezl 1 , if one 

 can depend to get the correct Standards. Botanical gardening in Eu- 

 rope has already been reduced, because now the dealers and gardeners 

 have all in their hands-, while the professors are much too lazy.. You 

 probably still knew Willdeno^ w after you studied under my grandfa- 

 ther Rudolph^. He was a different man from those herbarium people,, 

 and many a plant grown by hier exists in Berlirr,the home country of 

 which one can hardljr find now. . I know this definitely of Hungariarr 

 plant s, whiert LitaibP sent.. Similarly ^ affectedf Jacquirr and Host irr 





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