Powells Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ONLY 
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Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA 
December 2,1921 
My dear Dr Ames: 
I am in receipt of your much esteemed letter of Not 20 
and also the specimen sheet. Please accept my many thanks for both. 
I have placed down to dry for you a number of plants 
and I hope to begin the sending before many days pass. You must know 
that the humidity here is from '60 to 90 from May to December and plants 
dry out very slowly. 
Thinking it might interest you to know it,I will 
that I have decided to build you up an herbarium of all Panama species, 
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giving you at this time as perfect specimens as it is possible and 
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preserving a record of those which are deficient,in order to perfect 
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the specimen at some future time.0 
Transportation in Panama, are of a neglible quantity 
consisting of a very few trails leading from one prominent place to 
some nearby village. Off of these trails it is the densest Jungle. This 
is the reason that other collectors have made such a poor showing in 
number 
their of species. They have confined themselves to these trails. 
I am a natural woodsman, possesing the homing instint wonderfully 
developed. I leave these trails and penetrate for miles into the densest 
Jungle, wander around in all directions for hours and then strike out 
for the trail with unerring certainty. All transportation out of the 
Jungle to the trail must of necessity be on ones back, or on that of 
a carrier. This limits the number of plants one can get out with. It' is 
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a continual cutting your w r ay. Thus in many cases the number of/variet^gf 
is limited to one or at most to two plants, if they are at all large. I 
have stopped and thrown sway a plant to make room for some new species 
which I would come across enroute out of the Jungle. 
