Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON L-Y 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
page 6 
128 
BALBOA, C.Z., PA N AM A_ _ 1 92 
about 2u,after deducting the list received from him today, a copy 
of wnieh will be enclosed you ln this letter. Then again,if I 
should break witn him, wound he uux ^igeu.* hcie my aetertii3u_axiuiiS 
and never publish xnem.? 
I will,be delighted to receive the pantographs ac suggested in your 
letter € they will enhance my herbarium very much L interest. My 
herbarium is a duplicate of the one you are now receiving. 1 
make two specimens at the same time, one for you and one for me. 
“/Sis for those which have been heretofore determined. For the 
new »KX,as they flower,! am making three specimens - Dr S, you & me 
where possible} if only two can be made, then oxxe to Dr S and the 
other to you, I holding the plant for a future flowering^to procure 
my specimen. Rarely X can make only one specimen, then of course it 
goes to Dr S for determination* 
I have reserved my comments on the most important part of your 
letter until the last:- In yours of the 16th you use the expres¬ 
sion " when I come to xanama How the thought of your coming 
thrills me. What a desideratum. How I will revel in converse 
with you on orchid matters. Are you really considering such a 
trip ?. I thank you most heartily for the counterfeit present¬ 
ment of yourself and Mrs Ames. These I will file in my herbarium 
as a part of it, Lx token of my appreciation ox your many acts 
Most sincerely yours 
of helpful kindness 
