Dr. E.. Pu^inye 



August 20, 1875 



Vienna I received nice seeds from Regel in Petrograd, with them also 

 Americans, which may originate from yotw Unf ortunately, not everything> 



germinatedi, . We have in europaean gardens famericarr Fraxinusy , Cäryaa and' 

 Julians y but the knowledge of the species (CT. Koch" seems to me to lumpr 

 the items too much together) N may leave still! room for study; I would" 

 rather have the looalities -without names f and all the resti",, which may 

 seenr so common to Americans, and I would like to seed myself Pinus- 

 strobus , . Picea alba , Robinia , Pseudoacacia , if I could get specific,, 

 spontanous (sic.E.D.) locations. . I see from our europaean plants^how 

 good it is to know,that one ha 8 Pinus silvestrls from Russia or Sweden,, 

 Pumilio from Switzerkandc,Tyrol etc. ,and I let my students dig up or 

 collect seeds of everything they find'. Pinus Pumilio alone I have from 1 

 3 localities in Bohemia*Tyrol, Kärnten, , Rosa species fromr? Krairr,, Salix 

 from all areas, where I can get them from,, Spruce (Picea excelsa):! am 

 just beginning to collect. I hope that by next month I will get througfr 

 with the pines< suf f iciently; that I can send you a number of illustra- 

 tionss May be you find use as far as the araerican species is concerned,, 

 for an american Journal. Unf ortunately I have been> involved in my po - 

 sitiorr into such, practical questions, which the scholars in the old coun- 

 try/otherwise try to avoid, that I do not see an end yet.. In a country 

 like Bohemia, where there are woods wherever woods can exist,and where 

 an excellent forest management exists, one has screaraed? for enlargement 

 of the forests and swamps, in the believe, to achieve thereby larger 

 quantities of ra irr and a higher average water level! of the rivers,, 

 without going to the construction of reservoirs, and believeft to elimi- 

 nate floods c without riparian structures^ and no human being would let 

 his forest or field be changed\an<i the entire question is moot^, because 

 there is no space available for forest creation,, and. having much forest 

 land, there is no scarcity of lumber to be feared. .In America, the 



