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Klosterneuburg bei Wien, Dec. 31, 1876 



Honored Sir J « 



I have received your kind letter of the llth instant and regret very much 

 that it is not possible to receive from you any herbarium specimens of Vitis for 

 the Imperial & Royal Experimental Station, Therefor, I am most grate ful to 

 accept your kind off er to let us have an assortment of grape seeds, even though 

 incomplete. I take the liberty therefor to ask you to send these seeds as soon as 

 possible (to my address), in order that they can be sown at the beginning of the 

 warm season. I think that these seeds can all best be sent in a letter or perhaps 

 as "Samples", because under the latter designation I receive during the ye*r, 

 over 100 large plant shipments from North America and other foreign countries. 



With heartiest thanks in advance, I remain, 



SLncerely yours, 

 Baron Thismen. 



