Powells' Horticultural Garden 
84 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone. Panama 
balboa, c. z., panama 
March 4, 1922 
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My dear Dr .Ames, 
1 returned home on March 1st alter an absence of just 
one month and find your several letters and paejcages, Will 
you please accent my many thanks for same, ihe bo ox by Willis , 
"Dictionary etc",is just the thing I was very desirous for 
and it was in hopes of getting this that I wanted the copy of 
Grays. 
1 am too pressed for time just at this moment to write 
much, as 1 am busy staging the many plants which 1 brought 
with me. I procured a large number of new species, the number 
I have not yet determined- some exceedingly novel. 
In a few days I will get busy again on specimens for you 
and hope to send you a package soon. I found nothing from 
Dr Schlechter on my return, so I am presuming that he went to 
Yiena as he wrote he expected. I will also take up your 
several letters and answer them fully. 
Ihis is only a hasty note to advise my return and to 
thank you for your kindnesses. 
Most sincerely yours 
Inclosed a fev stamps for the daughters collection. I know she 
has not them, 
I enclose also a specimen of Spagnum moss, a large bed of which 
1 found while on one of my hunts. 1 was under the impression t 
that it only grew in very cold countries, say in extreme N.w. of 
the u. 2 . ana like localities. Has it been heretofore known in 
the tropics ?, 
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