Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON l_Y 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
My dear Dr Ames: 
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BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA- October 28, 192 2_, 92 
I am today sending you "bottled 
No 168 Catasetum, bicolor- K1 . Female flower. 
The entire flower id a lively green, with points of 
segments stained purple. 
I have had this plant now some three years and this is its 
first female flower. This serves to emphasise the sugges¬ 
tion in my letter of 24th as to the "benefits of having a stor¬ 
age garden to grow the plants. 
I have "been thinking over my suggest ion, as emhpdied in my 
letter,and the more I think of it the greater its potential¬ 
ities "become apparent. I would add to that letter,that if 
my proposal 
** meets your approval, I intend to employ another man for 
my own. account,and with the two mwn to explore the parts of 
the Isthmus where I do not personally cover in my two months 
vacations. I can easily handle several collectors with my 
garden and "basement facilities. If you do approve it, send -> 
me another strap press - I "believe I have sufficient felt paper 
and I cn easily get the news paper. For home use I will go back 
first 
to my old board press. My idea is to take KantafetsiE that sec- 
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it 
tion nearest the city,and gradually extend it further and further, 
thus getting the men familiar with what is in front of them, before 
they go into it. There'is only one Steamship line, that to 
^hiriqui, and for all other locations too far for horse, they will 
have to utilize sail boats, luggers, etc as they can get them. 
On the Atlantic side this w/ill be the only means, and there is some.f 
splendid territory which has never been over by any one. ^ 
Sincerely yours 
