Powells’ Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ONLY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
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BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA__*_192 
So send on specimens quickly to Dr Schlechter ( after Mr Bolfes death,without his 
making the determinations) in order to get these names the more quickly, I very nearly 
wrecked my herbarium, and I must await new flowering in order to make me new specimens 
to replace those sent him. Shis being so, would you mind sending m e a model of one 
xfeca± herbarium sheet of any old orchid, in order that I may se e your style , so that 
I can reconstruct my herbarium along the lines adopted in the U. S. I will thank you 
heartily for it. 
As I wrote you in my last letter 1 will send you such specimens as you may desire 
from my list, that I can spare from present herbarium, or that are in flower that I can k 
make you a fresh specimen of. Those which I cannot now send,I will do so as soon as 
plants flower again. In time you will thus receive a set of type specimens ( all with 
my herbarium number and the names as per Schlechter) and it will give me pleasure to do 
this. How much detail in description And in specimen do you wish?. Do not make it 
unnecessarily heavy, because I am a Government employee and can only work on it after 
hours or at nights- having ofcourseto give other matters a certain portion of my time. 
Also, for the reasons given in the proceeding paragraph just above, it will be of 
necessity a divide. 
Mr Bolfe thought so much of my specimens and of Panama possibilities that he had 
made all arrangements to pay me a visit, when he was taken ill. He wrote me most 
enthusiastically about it, and you can see by Mr / letter herewith, how he must 
have impressed his staff. Kindly return me the letter. 
To tell you that I thank you for your Grohidacaea would be superfluous, yet I will 
I 
tell youso. I did not for a moment expect them, and I consider the m a most valuable 
addition to my library. I was hoping for your buletins and reprint articles. I feel 
the day will come when you will know how much I do appreciate them. They have not yet 
arrived 
