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Powells’ Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA 
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letter. I am sending you one oi my efforts at a picture of an 
Epidend dendrobifolium, using x 1U of tne Himmler scw^e-, also 
some others- .just to show you how I am doing. I will yet learn ■ 
its workings thoroughly,and will make some good p ictur es yet. Hor 
have I given up trying to make the Himmler work/ as a camera lucida. 
I make you the following comments on the sp Epidendrum f'ragrans 
as requested. 
I have already sent you Ho 30 and its variety, and l am \ 
sending today Ho 208. I note its pseudobulbs and leaves). Refer to ^ 
Ho 43 in Kew specimens and you will find flowers with brown spots 
on sepals and petals. Also in Kew set you will find Ho 141 with a | 
rose purple lip ivery pretty). Ho 23-8(not yet sent youjhas purple v| 
stripef down the*, sepals and petals, This has very slender pseudobulb, y 
ranches/ from rhizome,which strike roote^ 
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upon by Dr S. It was' sent him im June 3. 
% ' Then there is a plant with pseudobulbs pear shaped. The flower sis; 
shapes are all practically the same. 
Very sincerely yours 
