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such snall shipments could be made more f requently.- Per post one 

 can send faster and cheaper, but nothing: above § Ib.- In the meantime 

 I thank you for c ount e r- shl pme nt s % but in Spring I may really ask 

 for sone.- My Utah and Arizona correspondent has gone hone,some of 

 his items f specially as already ( hei*, are 3 Single letters, neaning 

 unknown, E.DO Wipplei t and sone not yet described Platopuntias 

 a^d others, e.g« 0. echinocarpa. are dubious. Harn ? nicroneris grows 

 well, graft it f and it may bloom.- In contra st , the Achaconium fissu- 

 ratum com ine: fron the sane place (West A exas) is stand ing entirely 

 still, but lives; M. naacroneris is raultiplyi ng. 



A case with many things lies or did lie unf ortunately in Salt 

 Lake City, in it, as I hea'r the large lieh , rolycephalus , and may now 

 throiigh the Railroad strike ( which is 4$ over) have been held up to 

 the pernition of the plants ( we had a Syipll connunistic riot) . 



In relation to the Opuntia se^t as Bigelovii I can say only. 

 that I recelved years ago fresh, erreen fruits fron Arizona, which. I 

 thought to be Bigelonii , nanillata or another. All, however, were 

 sterile, and thus I thought to plant several nyself , and actually 

 two made roots and grew. - Thus, it is a much- fruit ing C yl i ^ d r o nun t i a 

 f rora Arizona, and that is all I know of it.- If the good ueonle would 

 only give the hone country of thelr inportations, it would help a lot 

 later, but how often does that not occur. Have you grown Biscelonii ? 

 With best cu.lture, .craf ting, etc • it nay be developing best. 



Of course» it should be named Cereus longisetu.s t It comes 

 fron the sane territory where Agave maculata <rrows, fron the unper 

 Rio Grande, and the area near Eagle Pass = Santa Rosa. Of the latter 

 leaves have been sent to ne rece^tly. We had it here in culture and 

 flower.but lost then. Do you have it ? It is stränge due to the 

 short anthers. 



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