Powells' Horticultural Garden 
ORCHIDS ONLY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
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My dear Dr Ames: 
EALBOA, C. Z., 
PA N AMA 
Hoy ember 20,1922 
I have your esteemed letter of Hoy 8 th, with the draft 
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for 200 as stated. 
Your views co-incide with mine throughout, paragraph 4 is acceptable. 
In my letter of Oct 24th, I purposely omitted any time limit, as it was 
my de sire that you might have the option of discontinueing the arrange¬ 
ment^ at any time in which you m i ght feel that it w a s no furt her to your 
inte rest. I cannot guarantee any fixed number of specimens in any given ^5 
time. I will send you all can that be had. I am just as anxious for 
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you to get them as you are^ and every sincere effort will be made to that 
end. I will certainly far exceed any field man you could have and with 
less friction and expense. There is however a slight error on your part 
as to the flowering season. This begins usually at the end of the rainey 
season, normally say Hov 15-th, and extends until the beginning of the 
rainey season, say normally May 15th. I had made up my mind at the 
time I made the proposition, to suggest about May 1st its discontinuance 
as to the full amount, say cut off $100„until the dry season begins again. 
It being my intention to let one of the men go then; and to keep the 
other, sending him out on propitious seasonsof weather, there always being 
such intervals, and the later part of July and early August we have quite 
a spell of dry weather. During these periods many of the wet season 
flowers open up. 
Hot one doll r of this £200 will go to my personal use- it will be 
all spent in the furtherance of Orchidology, of wliich you wdll receive 
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both direct and indirect benefits. The direct in the immediate specimens 
sent you, and the indirect in the future, as time may go by. 
As it would take practically every cent of the first $100 to keep 
