Certainly, Agave virginica will stand your clinate an.d will do 

 better in the open than in. a pot. It grows wild here and we have tem- 

 paratures to - 18 or 20 BT. But also terrible heat, and that is ne - 

 cessary for the wellbeing of this native plant. . t * 



I see that Baker rnentions the A, Cohsi^er a^ti (?) as A.Victoriae. 

 More in Garden Chronicle f, it doubtless sho^l^ be retard ed a f oreiprs 

 and distinct group ff 



It is possible that ny an^n.stissina and geminif lora fall topre - 

 • L her. Unf ortunately, I have nothing but leaves. 



A. naculata Regel is likely = variegata according to Jacobi f s 

 description. What has been mentioned by H. Sälen as ray plant, can hardly 

 be deternined. now, but Sälen did receive roots of my naculata ( nacu - 

 lata Hauk) You speak of scelet<^ut these Agavae do not die off, 

 equally not naculosa = virgirica - but produce side-sprouts fron the 

 corpus« My virsririana in the garder hloorts every year fron the same 

 basis« 



Your description. and spe einen s leave no doubt, that (if your 

 plant is the ?e^iine fr>on P.e^el)vou have in front of you that ,wh ich 

 I consider to be variegata » And , once a^ain, naculosa Hauk dif-^ers 

 fron all Agavae known to ne through the short stanens (?) as H. pic- 

 tures them and I describe them. 



What you report about the sweet exudation, is of interest to 

 ne; I had seen it in overabundance with Shawiij thus, it seens to 

 be universal» Strange, that nobody has said anything about it, 



I do not have any live Ce^. gonacanthu. s , t h ou^h I collected them 

 nvself in southern Colorado - sane with Ech . Sin son i - But as now 

 every year a lot of travellers for nleasure ßro into the territory,, 

 it shou.ld not be diffiou.lt to obtain live nlants. It is tough to cul- 

 tivate Simpson! as it demands alpine air. 8,000- 9,000 foot high t 

 Your G. Engelmann 



August 2,l ß ?? 



(translated fron Gernar soript by Edarar Denison, Feb. 1988) 



