COPY 



Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, 



La Console, Route de Lausanne, 192, 

 Geneva, Switzerland. 



January 15, 1934. 



Air. T. H. Kearney 



Bureau of Plant Indus try, 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 



Dear Sir: 



I answer a little late your letter of December 13th; that is due 

 to the holidays and to the fact that it would not have been very practical 

 to make a photo of the De Candolle* s plate you spoke of. You will judge 

 the matter yourself , because I had a copy made of the drawing, with the 

 painted parts, by one of our gardeners, Mr. Zimmermann , who is nearly an 

 artist. In fact I can assure you that this reproduction is qui te identical 

 with the original. You will see by it that the parts drawn in pencil would 

 have been very diffieult to get out by photographying. I copied on that 

 plate the indications written by De Candolle, the first one underneath, 

 the second one upward, as it is on the original. 



I hope this plate will be suff icient for you to consider the two 

 plants as synonyms. It was already the opinion of De Candolle, as you will 

 see on the plate itself . 



With kind regards, 



Very truly y ours, 



B. P. G. Hochreutiner 



P. S. Things being so, there is no bill for the photograph, but if 

 you will send something to our gardener-painter, I suppose he will appreciate 

 it. The drawing is sent under separate cover. 



