Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
page 2 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA 
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covers are quite expensive here i sev«n and a half cents each), the 
postage to return them will "be very small in comparison, hence I 
have no hesitation in mentioning it. 
Answering your enquiry as to Knudson 1 s recent publica- 
a few years ago 
tion. I read/with some interest,a couple of articles written by 
Prof Lumsden of Cornell on this subject; and I have just recently 
of K&£i. 
read quite an article written by Prof Ramsbottom, " Orchid Mycor- 
rhiza". This was referred to in last number of Orch Review. 
I have growing in my garden quite a number of seedlings, 
from 
self sown; and it is my custom to break a. ripe seed capsule m a 
stem and to scatter the seeds to the winds, believing that they 
may do some one some good in the future. I also frequently break 
a capsule and drop it on the packing in the basket of the mother 
plant 4 of a desirable species, hoping for results. It is too early 
as yet to say if any. In one case I have quite a colony of seedling 
of Oncid carthag&nense on an old tree limb, self sown from some one 
of my plants. 
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As soon as Cat Decker! flowers I will put up and send 
you the desired parts, as well as full flowers. This will not be 
until Sep’t or Oct. I now have for you in bottles 6 of the ® 
Gongoras, with one of the 2 now in flower spike, and the other 
sprouting a spike. So within a very short time the entire series 
will come on. 
It is too early yet to wish you " God speed" on your 
trip to Europe, but I can say that I wish w .I_was going. It would 
be the joy of my life to visit a big Botanical Garden like Kew. 
Sincerely yours. 
