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dwells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ONLY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
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BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA_ _ 192 
Orchids and I know their faces & forms as I do my children. 
Looking hack, I now think that my rehuffs hy the American Bot¬ 
anists was a good thing for me, because they could not then have 
determined my plants, nor can they do so now for want of access to 
types; and it forced me to a more intensive study than I perhaps wou3L 
have made; to the purchase of a large quantity of literature, which I 
now find quite desirable. Yet, at the time, it piqued me and made 
me determined I would succeed even without their help. And I have 
done so . This is evidenced by the enclosed copy of a letter from the 
Governor of the Canal Zone written last May, and the testimony of 
Rolfe and Schlechter. 
I will now take up the other part of your letter: I have never 
sold a plant or specimen, I have given some away and I have exchangdl 
many plants with Orchid collectors in other states of the Tropics. I 
have some 1.50 varieties of tropical ffirchids, other than those of Pan¬ 
ama, in my garden, 
I will be pleased to co-operate with you on the basis of mutual 
interest and information. Sending you eopies of any publications I 
may make, or have a hand in the issue- this later will include Dr 
Schlcchters publications on Panama Orchids - in exchange for like 
courtesies from you. This reminds me to say that I have not a sin¬ 
gle one of your- buletins or pamphlets, I have tried several times 
in the past to purchase them through Sew York book sellers, but was 
always informed that they were privately published and could not be 
had, 
I have never heard of the Selenipedium from Ancon Hill that you 
ask about. Ancon Hill has been cleaned of all timber, excepting a 
