Powells’ Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
104 
BALBOA, C. Z. t 
PA N AMA 
9 
June a,1922 
-J9 2 
My dear Dr Ames: 
I would have done 
speoimens at nights, keeping off mildew. So far, gwd! 
L^aC !* 1 * 7 ., 1 ! 8 ? 584 thRt Dr Bartel - told such glowing things 
my place and I hope to deserve it all. siting - 
As to the Camera lucida, I do not.thinTe in fact I 
tubular, of 1 
highest 4 ? 0 .jrfhe other helng 87 and 900 .fPuC other =copf is V 
Sfthe^Ls^ta^e^lo?^ 020 ?^' b0X ^ame,“wUh suSefspLe ' 
w^» oS obj £v 1 iiutS.^WS k A w “L?^!pr 
with the eame^Jreteida attachment already fitted. 5 
Go ^SOTB.B- they have always been a-trying one at be-t 
. .J° me, and have always been somewhat of a puzzle One of mv i 
troubles has been that all flowers dried LiLv J l J P e y iou s 
learned how to d~ Tr 1#CL out slack, but now-I have 
' Lrv r0 whnf^oi srzss * 1 
some°“gl? on e ?hem. y °“' retUrn “ 4 let us 1101,8 that » wili shed' 
The slat press will be very acceptable, but I think that the i^ rtr , 
yield a bette? r Jesults !«d^e T^ T col 1 lectin e outfit- presses- would 
the hind that I B f m ° re hmidy in the ^sing. ^e.e are 
in my letter! 1 re<3Ue ° tea ^ ou to ascertain what their cost would be 
As I understand the labels " type ” are only to be used when vour 
was-^St’ls to Jv°£ PlM-t from which Dr Schlechters 
lo t0 say ^y eitlier "the severing of rhizome or through the 
fZZJ'ES g™ 5 %^ I 111 ” 4 0804 you°numbers. 
tka J the c °lor standard,as"written me of,will be available 1 
iu will solve many puzzling questions of color shades. ’ 
next^^over! 0 ^ 61 * CM1 ^ had in Panama 5Jld 1 wil1 ® et some when I 
*i“ speS.^ra^Sh lt a ° Wer - Whl0h 1 negl80te4 t« 
l I nt I of 1 LU? m f ln a | t f rmin:tn g the Epia fragrans and Rousseau In last 
These h»?e 0 nSw n b 6 th 4 Jonl ?SG?hs*Sl§gSt?R 5 erl 5 r let »* ^om. 
Very sincerely yours 
