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Powells’ Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone. Panama 
BALBOA, C.Z., PANAM A_ m 6Kl lj61_3E_ 0_, - ~ ' / ‘~t 4' 2 
My dear Dr Ames: 
I am enclosing jrou a list of specimens which, will 
go forward to you by the next mail, some of them will interest you 
very much, I think*, some of them are not up to my standard hut there 
have been extenuating circumstances. About the middle of July, 1 
extended my garden to four times its then size,and with the super¬ 
vising of construction and the moving and arranging of plants, in 
addition to my usual work at the office,! was burdened, barley in 
August I caught a case of the " Flu ” and this put me out ox the 
active running for about two weeks, making one feel like life was_ 
^burden tin± you do not feel as if you could do anything that you 
d(bd not have to. Still, I managed to keep up with the flowering 
plants, making specimens as necessary. cie 1 heie is never 
fatal,but it certainly does take the sap out 01 anyone. 
The above will also explain why I did not write to 
you while you were in Europe, as I desired and intended, to do. 
I will now take up your very much appreciated letters 
in the order of their writing and make such replies as may be in¬ 
dicated. 
London, July 23: Comment on Kew specimen of Selenip chica. 
The S.chica is a much more weedy and softer plant than the 
Elleanthus. It more closely resembles in its texture some ox the 
common garden weeds in my part of the U.S. It is so brittle tnax 
the tops all wither and drop when transferred- then die. I am 
sending you two of them as a plant specimen today. Lot one single 
one of about a dozen survived the transfer, though I believe the 
