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Powells’ Horticultural Garden 
ORCH I DS ON LY 
Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama 
BALBOA, C. Z., PANAMA JfUi 1,8,1023 _ 192 
with mueh satisfaction. The cotton, paadea ones require more watching 
to keep off mould, which can and will come in a single night. 
My material from the woods will be pouring into you by April 1st, 
and could begin to come long before if you wish it sent on during your 
absence, which I gather from your letters may extend up to Apl 1st. While 
I am away my daughter will give all attention required tfe my Orcnid affair 
and,as she has always been my faithful adjutant,I have no fears of its 
not being properly done. 
You should have Just seen how I Jumped upon Jo 2 of the Schedulae 
and the avidity with which I read every line of it. If I can Judge the 
other urchidists by myself,a paen of thanks is going in to you for each 
number. It was sr^rely a much needed publication, 
I will not send Schlechter the letter untxl it is reltased by you, 1 
am in accord with you as to probable effects, hence my already delay. 
With your permission,however,I would like to send him a specimen of the 
ip. 
Selen/chica, as that has been for a logg time an item of correspondence 
between us, and ne has bee n so anxious to get one. It cannot now, that 
I cbj . j . sec, interfere with your work. I believe Schlechter tc be broad 
• minned ana. this was evidenced when I refused him specimens at f4rst, fcssao? 
because of my promise to Rolfe. He wrote me " I would not do anything to 
interfere with Rolfe," but the German mind is a queer thigg,as was made 
manifest in the famous declaration that"treaties were but a scrap of paper 
I had expected to send you several copies of Schlechters book, believing 
that you might wish to use scissors in stead of typewriter, in some things . 
You shall receive them by the first mail out from here after I get them. 
I am sure that our Herbarium work will be far more interesting now, 
that there is no one between us. I can write you originally about things 
and send you promptly things that have had to wait some times for months. 
