Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
143 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA_192 
My usual budget of notes: 
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Regarding No 17 Epid'end dendrofolium and No 138 Epidend lorifolium - 
both of these plants throw adventitious growths at ends of old stems, 
as do Eendrobiih*s, which make rootlets and which will grow Af cut off 
and planted in moss.' \ ^ A. " wXwo , 
Has the experiment ever been made of drying and pressing flowers taken 
from the Alcohol and Formalin mixture. It seems to me that it would 
be possible to get some good specimens of the large fleshy flowers, wki 
which mould so easily when drying. 
Will you kindly send me the formula of the Phenol- glycerine prep¬ 
aration. I wish to preserve some specimens and this seems, by your 
using it, to be better than the Alcohol- formalin mixt. 
Regarding Ho 16 Cattleyc Deckeri, Kl. If you will refer to page 
261 of Orchid Review' Vol VIII, ( 1900 ) you will find quite a 
lengthy article by R.A.R. reviewing all that had been said about 
it. If you are not familiar with the article, it might be worth 
reading,in view of your determination to make this one of your 
Panama illustrations. 
