Powells Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
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tions he would he glad to make them for me. At first I sent him a 
specimen, This started a correspondence which continued until his 
fatal illness. I sending him a specimen from time to time. 
About this time a good friend of mine who was going to Mass on 
a vacation, and who knew my troubles and desires for varietal names 
while in Boston,to speak up, I gave him your name and address, 
which I had seen mentioned many times in my literature, and requestd 
him to visit your place, to say to you what I had, what I was trying 
to do, and to ask you if it would be agreeable to enter into corres¬ 
pondence with me on the subject of Panama Orchids? On his return 
he informed me that he went out to your place but that you were 
absent, that he explained to your agent in charge, gave him my name, 
address and he promised to submit the matter to you, I waited some 
time to hear from you; not doing so I concluded that the Botanical 
Gardens in the U.S. did not consider me or Panama of sufficient 
importance to notice. 
So, listening to the many requests of Mr Rolfe, I wrote him I 
would send him a complete herbaria of all of my plants if he would 
undertake to identify or determine them for me. His reply was very 
gratifying, he advised that he would be delighted to do so and he 
also then told me there was much of interest to be learned from 
Panama, From that time I would send him a package in each mail as 
I could get them ready. Along in the winter of 9 I called his 
attention to the fact that I was not receiving determinations very 
promptly, and he wrote me substantially- You have sent- me so many 
that are new to me, I have thought it best not to take up the deter- 
