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The orchids mentioned in your letter of March third have come 
in* Thes are as follows: 
363 Oncidium cebolleta (Jacq.) SW. 
3C4 Laelia Wendlandii leichb. f, 
365 Spidendrum immatophyllum 
Ho. 364 is a good thing. be have had it before from Honduras, 
hut in very poor condition. You have already sent in material of 363, 
and 365. 
The specimens sent on March 25th have not yet arrived, Hor have 
the lost specimens turned up. Perhaps you had heen able to ascertain 
something about them since writing your letter of March fourth. 
I hope you are really feeling fit again and that all traces of 
your illness have vanished. 
I will order a check sent to you tomorrow for four hundred 
dollars eynd address it to you at Siguatepeque, 
I reached home from the West Indies on March 13. Then I went 
to Florida and only returned from there on April 5, I shall be here right 
along now through the spring and summer. 
I dont want you to feel that I am unfair or unmindful of the 
difficulties that you encounter. It is a pure delight to handle your 
orchid material and I only hope that you will, af$er careful consideration 
decide to continue sending material to me. It is, of course, highly 
probable that you have corresponded with institutions or individuals who 
will pay you higher prices than usual and that under such stimulation 
you might collect more in a given time than you have done up to this time. 
But, from long experience, allow me to warn you that the per specimen basis 
is only profitable when you are act ally in touch with people who will 
undertake to accept everything, in any condition. If they are at all se¬ 
lective, you will find it a difficult task to make both ends meet. 
Very sincerely yours. 
