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plicata, Pinus excelsa and J effre,yi , but instead Torreyana , Coulteri insignis , Sabiniana 

 tuberculata rigida, Taeda, ponderosa , brutia , Canadensis , halepensis . Pinaster , australis 

 (all young seedlings) have perished, monophylla and contorta have suffered in some areas, 

 not in others, which by the way also happened with Taxus banata . Thu.ja orientalis . Picea 

 orientalis , Cryptomeria .japonica, Cunninghamia sinensis . Cupressus Lawsoniana have 

 suffered but Wellingtonia very much. Thuyopsis dolabrata remained uninjured. 



Also Picea Menriesii suffered a great deal, which however with this and with others 

 I ascribe to the unfavorable location and the low age. With it the previous summer was 

 very cool and wet and the sprouts poorly matured. Does Picea pungens exist in culture? 

 From Schönbrunn I received a branch of a very long and pointed, white-needled pine under 

 the name Engelmanni, which otherwise I saw only short needled, similar to the Alba and 

 supposedly that one is Pungens. Does it have resemblance in the cones to Menriesii . 

 which are so characteristic? Moreover there are two different forms, as I see from 

 cones of Titcha . 



This year April is remarkably warm, whereas from November to March an unusual coldness 

 prevailed. Should for a change April have become cold with you, after the prior months 

 were so warm? I regularly receive and very soon, the observations from Missouri. In 

 the meantime I have not received March. Otherwise the observations tend to arrive 

 around the 20th. 



Respectfully, 



Dr. E. Purkinje 



