St. Louis, Mo. November 25t 1882 



Dear Collea^ue 



I don 1 1 know now, where I an sur-eosed to write,and you would 



your address 



have done well, if only you would had let me knowjby postcard, as soon 

 as you knew. In the meantime, it will happen with this letter as wlth 

 your last one, which followed ne from place to place until it reached 

 me finally; but I re turne d home too late, to be able to send you the 

 desired items; that, thus, must be postponed until ^ext Spring. But, 

 I will enclose a few things^also seeds of A-Tave virginlca* which I 

 received as well as a plant a week ago; they gro'w 10 - 1.5 miles from 

 here. 



Now I want to tyfeat particulars o:^ your letter. Thank you for 

 returninß* the Sketches and your remarks ab out them. That the seeds 

 germinated , is very nice,I hardly expected it. I cannot get now to 

 the t-reatment of the cacti, and, thus, the plant, which I received from 

 Parry, of which I have complete raaterial,may have to be laid ad acta.* 



Thank you for the large seed of Oer . serpentinus ; if I had more 

 of it, I would analyze it; but as is*I do not want to destroy it. It 

 flowers here often enough but has never set fruit. In contrast, I found 

 on a c ^r . trlan.gularls here a number of good tasting large fruit. I 

 assume, you know the seed of this. 



I hear now, that a commercial gardiner in San Francisco, F. A.Miller 

 has sent seeds and plant s of cacti to Europe#also other plant s (dried) 

 tubers, bulbs and seeds. Merchant^have started busine ss in. California, 

 so t^at the products of this area nay become ouite available.For Hil- 

 ler I identified a lot of Cacti ,Cypresses a^d such. 



Wi4jfc> Opuntia seeds I have the same experience as you, they gerrai- 

 nate sometim.es very late.I do not deal any more with their cultiva - 

 tion,a.s I have neither time nor good oportunity for it;but if I can 

 distribute the seeds, I do this with pleasure« 



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