Empire City, Colorado August l8 f l88l 



My honored Priend 



Here in a lovely Valley of the Rocky Mountains I answer your 

 letter of May 27. Soon after receipt of it, the severe heat in St. 

 Louis chased me away, the nore so as I had. suffered 2 months from a 

 bad , *rout-like rheunatic fever, from which I could rot recover well. 

 I received your letter shortly before my departure and I looked at 

 the collection of seeds in it orly casually; The letter itself I took 

 al. ons*, the seeds lie at hone. 



Why did you rot write last vear ; I could have sent vou a mass 



of Material from California and Arizona, believed h o T f e ve r ; t h q ^k s to 



your silence f that you had glven up on 6actl and Agavae • By the way t , 



I brought wlth me many (or at least) several Cylirdror/untias , which 



are growing and. of which I can send to you sometime» though these plants 



ship worse than all the other types of cactij most of them dry up; 



shöuld one send entire , old plants rather than Single branches ? I 

 myself 



did collect nostly and brought them honte#young plants or sections 



which had fallen to the ground and took root. Also, I have again the 

 poorly tyaifled but beautiful Opuntla basilaris« Does it exist in s^Ce 

 T^e larß*e Ommtia fron Galararros (O. Galopagll ?) and myriac^^tha 

 live with us and grow well« 



Yes, I had a lovely trip.but it was unf ortunately too Short, into 

 the cactus territory of southern California and Arizona; in the latter 

 country I found a Yucca, similar to baccata # which I consider a new 

 one and described as Y. v^aoracarpa/ ; I sent seeds to varlous institu- 

 tions in riurope and, also, to Prof .Decalsne in the Jardin des Plants,, 

 also Yucca elata , f ormerly named by me Y. an^ustif olia var. elata , a 

 mafnificent plant with an 8 foot high stem and a flowering shaft of 

 8 - 10 foot hlght - well d.if f erentiated from Y. angustlf olia ; also 

 seeds of A^a^e Palneri . Further nan£ cac ti , specially Opuntia seeds. 



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