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I have had no Hippeastrum-------- in bloom so far or<br />

I would have sent you the pollen... ..Amaryllis do not<br />

do very well here... [he is using a pale blue ink<br />

making the writing even more illegible] "I wonder if<br />

you ever read my scribbling?"<br />

Oct. 11, 1922 "My Billbergia ------- specimens also bloomed<br />

beautifully but I have no other one in flower just<br />

now... Much about his ficus. Dracaenas are a sight,<br />

even those standing in water, and Ixoras just now<br />

make a fine show. My species of Pandanus... are doing<br />

expecially well.... ------ Collier, Gifford Pinchot<br />

and 8 other millionaires bought 175,000 acres including<br />

the "Big Cypress." Naples also will grow, from now on,<br />

in a most ----- way. A Mr. Jones, a rail-road<br />

magnate and a coal mine owner bought all the land.<br />

Great improvements are continuously made."<br />

Dec. 17, 1922 "Yesterday I mailed you two sorts of pollen, one of<br />

Billbergia Saundersii, the other from a species of<br />

which I lost the label." Much trouble with flooding<br />

from the rainy season with caladiums in % to 2 feet of<br />

water. "Shall send you ----- of seeds of Aechmea<br />

fulgens--beautiful red berries, now dried up."<br />

"I like this locality every day better, all the plants are<br />

doing fine. My Pandanus veitchii, P. sanderi, p. baptistii,<br />

P. javonicus(?) variegatus, P. tectorius, P. ---------<br />

are all doing well, and Dracaenas are a glorious sight.<br />

I have about 100 fine seedlings of Couroupita (?)<br />

gr--avensis, about as many of Revanala madagascariensis,<br />

many Pterocarpus (?) indicus, Phyllanthus distichus,<br />

Tamadindus indica, Poinciana regia, Cassia grandis,<br />

C. fistula, Parmentiera aerifera (?),<br />

Spartiodna (?) nilotica<br />

Queensland nut [Macaranga ternifolia]<br />

Terminolia catoppa (?)<br />

Alenistes moluccana (?)<br />

Caragana odorata<br />

Nyctanthes arbor-tristis<br />

Schottia (?) sp.<br />

Grevillea robusta<br />

Maba natalensis (?)--HN's question mark.<br />

Livistona altissima<br />

L chinensis<br />

L. alviformis (?)<br />

Latania laddigiesii<br />

Cocas flexuosa<br />

0---doxa regia<br />

0. Borinquena

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