Powells Horticultural Garden 
80 
ORCHIDS ONLY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
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BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA 
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Guatemala on Dec 6than! from there he would go to San Salvador. I 
have a couple of Salvador plants - one a Cattleya Skinnerii and one 
a Lycaste. They were Drought to me by one of the ship Captains. 
I sincerely hope that Dr Schlechter will accomplish for you all 
that you wish while in Vienna: this with my specimens will make your 
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refferences to Panama- Orchids pretty nearly complete. 
I will be delighted to have the labels you so kindly offer to 
print for me. The City of Panama,.while it sounds big when speaking 
of it, is only a village in our -American sense; because the white or 
purchasing class only n mber about 10 000 the rest being ignorent 
natives and Jamaican negroes, who only purchase something to eat or 
to wear. So,the merchants carry very limited stocks in various arti¬ 
cles and the printery is the Newspaper, where the stocks, are small 
in variety and the prices are exhorbitant. Anything out of the ordi¬ 
nary has to be ordered from the States. It was for these reasons 
that I requested you to purchase for me the mailing tubes. 
Nothing from Dr Schlechter as yet, so I cannot send you another 
letter 
list. My latest/was Nov 12th., and my latest list was Sep 12th. I 
regret to know that he has been ill. There is a mail in tomorrow' 
on which I hope for a list. 
With all of the good wishes of the season, 
Very sincerely 
