Powells Horticultural Garden ^ 
ORCHI DS O N LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA_____192 
will be on their way back to you. 
Knowing Dr Schlechter well from my literature, his standing and 
ability as an Orchidist being at the top, and regarding him as being 
pre-eminently the best one to do this particular piece of work on 
account of his facilities for reference, I gladly availed myself of 
his offer and I have sent him up to now over 200 specimensof Panama ® 
Orchids, As the largest published number is some 117 you can readily 
see the great number of new species I have turned up. Dr Schlechter 
wrote me about a month ago substantially - it is astonishing the 
number of new species you have discovered and yet it should not be, 
as Warseewiez only surveyed a small part of Chiriqui and Veraguas and 
that not thoroughly; Dr Moritz Wagner a very circumscribed part; Prof 
Pittier and Mrs Rousseau a small part; while it appears that you have 
explored every nook and corner north of Darien province. In fact he 
wrote me that so importantdoes he regard my collection, that during 
the coming summer he will issue a book entitled " Orchidacae Panamen- 
sis Powellianum" , 
Well I have not yet made as extensive exploration as that, but I 
y/ill do so before I quit, including Darien, 
I have in my garden about 4000 plants representing some 230 -240 
species of Panama, They are all growing well and give me an endless 
amount of pleasure and study. I am well equipped for their study, 
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having ample literature, a powerful^hand lens for quick examination 
or for examination of flower while on the stem; a $ & D dissecting 
microscope/, with 5 lenses; a specially designed German floral micro 
scope and free access to a B & I medical microscope with high & low 
lenses. X devote a great deal of my time to the study oi my 
power 
