Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
April 5,1922 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA_192 
My dear Dr Ames: 
I have your esteemed letter of Mch 24, for which 
many thanks. 
I had a post card from Dr Schlechter of date Feb 27 
enclosed you herewith for infolrmation. You will note he promises 
me determination lists at once, and that he will start now to make 
out the descriptions for publication. 
You omitted in your letter to advise me about the 
Sphagnum moss in the tropics, as requested in jme. in my letter of 
Mch 4. 
As I have heretofore written you it is my desire 
as 
and intention to make your herbarium of Panama Orchids x perfect 
as possible, and therefore there will be but few specimens without 
plant specimens at this time; and these will come on to you at some 
later date when available. 
Do not fail to send the adhesive plaster as I am at 
a standstill awaiting it. Also the labels advised in your letter of 
Jan last. Hot knowing exactly what these labels are r I am suggesting 
that if they do not embrace the card label in the lower right hand 
corner of specimen sheets, that you have me some printed. It will 
save me much labor in typewriting them out for every sheet as now. 
It will bq only necessary to fill in the information. 
A 
If the cover sheets which I am sending with the 
specimens are not nedded by you., will you kindly return them by mail 
in the heavy card board I am sending on outside of packages. I think 
it best to protect each specimen with a cover in the mails^&nd these 
