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Powells' Horticultural Garden 
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Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
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BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA.. 
April 16,1922 
My dear Dr Ames: 
I will tomorrow send you Dp: mail 7 "bottled specimens 
of the Gongora tribe. Do 93' seems to have disappeared- that is the 
plant flowering and marked Do 93 is not it. I fear that my Jamaican 
gardner changed the numbers some way last fall when he was rebasket-^'J 
ing the GongorasL$ Will you kindly compare the ICew specimens with . . 
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these and see that they are the same. The numbers as sent you are A 
from A 
the/ same plant s and numbers as sent Dr Schleehter and determined by 
him under these numbers- hence those of Kew must agree with them. 
Dr Strong of Harvard.was to see my Garden this after- 
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noon. There were not many flowers in evidence, as I have been 
keeping them pretty closely cut for specimens,and giving to friends 
who come to the garden. I hope he was pleased. He did say that he 
wanted you to come to Panama. 
During the week I will send you another lot of Speci- 
mensof those you already have the names. There will be some mighty 
pretty ones among them. 
a sh e^t w ith 
I am sending with this/a single pressed and dried 
flower of the Gongoras, which I call my key sheet to the Gongora 
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tribe. With this key and the bottled specimens you should be able 
to make almost perfect drawings of the types. Regular specimens will 
be sent you at a lfe\er date. ' 
On Tuesday the mail will come in from Dew York and I 
am expecting a world of pleasure in going through vol 7 of your .. 
Orchidaceae and also in the receipt of one of your letters. 
Very sincerely yours 
