Powells Horticultural Garden 
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ORCHIDS ONLY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
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BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA 
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Should you consider this favorably I would suggest that you reply as 
promptly as possible, as the dry season will be-here by about the middle 
of November, when plant collecting should be actively begun. Also the 
flowering season begins with the dry season, and every day should be 
taken advantage of. 
If this arrange ment is consumated I can then sever relations with Dr 
Schlechter without any wrench to my conscience. I am only bound to 
him by my agreement to send him my specimens upon his proposal to give 
me determinations and to publish them promptly. Both of which he has 
broken many times. Stilly I have rather felt that his shortcomings did 
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not ipso facto release me from my promise; but this would so change 
the status that it would. You can write such a letter as should be 
sent him,and I will copy and send it. 
I'td-J- 
I will within the next few days send you a rarissisimo- the female 
A 
flower of Catasetum bicolor. This plant Dr Schlechter wrote me was 
one of the lost ones < like the Masd Livingstoneanum) aid was a very 
rare herbariumspecimen. Female not known. I have only one small 
Most sincerely yours 
