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I have had no Hippeastrum-------- in bloom so far or I would have sent you the pollen... ..Amaryllis do not do very well here... [he is using a pale blue ink making the writing even more illegible] "I wonder if you ever read my scribbling?" Oct. 11, 1922 "My Billbergia ------- specimens also bloomed beautifully but I have no other one in flower just now... Much about his ficus. Dracaenas are a sight, even those standing in water, and Ixoras just now make a fine show. My species of Pandanus... are doing expecially well.... ------ Collier, Gifford Pinchot and 8 other millionaires bought 175,000 acres including the "Big Cypress." Naples also will grow, from now on, in a most ----- way. A Mr. Jones, a rail-road magnate and a coal mine owner bought all the land. Great improvements are continuously made." Dec. 17, 1922 "Yesterday I mailed you two sorts of pollen, one of Billbergia Saundersii, the other from a species of which I lost the label." Much trouble with flooding from the rainy season with caladiums in % to 2 feet of water. "Shall send you ----- of seeds of Aechmea fulgens--beautiful red berries, now dried up." "I like this locality every day better, all the plants are doing fine. My Pandanus veitchii, P. sanderi, p. baptistii, P. javonicus(?) variegatus, P. tectorius, P. --------- are all doing well, and Dracaenas are a glorious sight. I have about 100 fine seedlings of Couroupita (?) gr--avensis, about as many of Revanala madagascariensis, many Pterocarpus (?) indicus, Phyllanthus distichus, Tamadindus indica, Poinciana regia, Cassia grandis, C. fistula, Parmentiera aerifera (?), Spartiodna (?) nilotica Queensland nut [Macaranga ternifolia] Terminolia catoppa (?) Alenistes moluccana (?) Caragana odorata Nyctanthes arbor-tristis Schottia (?) sp. Grevillea robusta Maba natalensis (?)--HN's question mark. Livistona altissima L chinensis L. alviformis (?) Latania laddigiesii Cocas flexuosa 0---doxa regia 0. Borinquena
Dec 17, 1922 (continued) dictyosphma (?) rubra Chrysalidocarpus lutescens Ptychosperma een~4~ghemPene elegans A----- phoenix cunnighamii, and many others. He continues with, "How much could you have accomplishes here (and I too) if you had had a chance to start in here 30 years ago! As it is now, it is extremely difficult to build up a tropical collection on account of the Federal Horticultural Board and the State Plant Board. Even seeds of palms and ornamentals cannot be imported without their consent and this bureauocracy must prove extremely detrimental to -------- .I1 and more. Problems with the restriction on importing crotons, ixoras, dracaenas. "I begged [the Bureau of Plant Industry] years ago to obtain for me seeds of the Indian Sirer (?) Tree (Ptereosph-----ace----- )(?) .... I finally just last week obtained a package of seed from the Botanical Gardens at Calcutta at my own request, also I I seeds of Tectonia grandi and Mim----Elengii . . . Next letter in this file is Sept. 9, 1923. It consists of 6 pages. "The two Hippenstrum solandiflum conspicum (?) will go tomorrow, also the pollen of Tillandsia lindeni." Then names plants set out. "I made deep holes (3 ft. deep, 4 & 5 ft. wide) and filled them with old grass ----- ----- , compost and put over this a layer of top soil which I mexed with tankage. I planted out at least 400 of these plants the latter part of the week." He then names: 50 royal palms 28 Porto Rico royal palms 8 coconut palms, 3 Teminalia ----- 12 Flacaurtia Ramontchi 12 Gardenia Thunbergia 12 Antiderma nitiva (?) 30 Premna adorata (?) 2 Pithecolobium [Pithecellobium] dulce 3 Lagerstroemia Flos-Reginae 12 Paritium elatum 8 Antidesma Buniua (?) 12 Couroupita guianensis 3 Marantea guianensia (?) 8 Cordia Sebestena 1 Bischof ia javanica 12 Coeur flexuosa (?) 3 Elaeis guineensis 1 Attalea Colume (?) 3 Pittosporum floribumdum 12 Spathodea nilotina and many more.
- Page 1 and 2: This is an unedited transcript summ
- Page 3 and 4: Jan 22, 1897 Discouraged with the f
- Page 5 and 6: Sept. 23, 1905 (anather letter, sam
- Page 7 and 8: -5- Dec 22, 1908 (continued) More o
- Page 9 and 10: March 26, 1918 Sends pollen of 'Car
- Page 11 and 12: Oct. 16, 1918 Thanks TLM for specim
- Page 13 and 14: Tillandsias from Paraguay, Uruguay
- Page 15: June 16, 1922 Naples. "Under sepera
- Page 19 and 20: Talks about preparing the land agai
- Page 21 and 22: (for cucumbers?) in the forests. Th
- Page 23 and 24: [P.S.] This Bromeliad fever keeps y
- Page 25 and 26: [page 2 is missing. The verso of pa
- Page 27 and 28: "I am very anxious to obtain about
- Page 29 and 30: thyrsoidea [He is 71 years old] "Dr
- Page 31 and 32: I am sorry that you sent him some o
- Page 33 and 34: check sp. at it--some very fine spe
- Page 35 and 36: Dec. 21, 1925 continued (pages 2 an
- Page 37 and 38: Oct. 19, 1926 HN has been to Ithaca
Dec 17, 1922 (continued) dictyosphma (?) rubra<br />
Chrysalidocarpus lutescens<br />
Ptychosperma een~4~ghemPene elegans<br />
A----- phoenix cunnighamii, and many others.<br />
He continues with, "How much could you have accomplishes here<br />
(and I too) if you had had a chance to start in here 30<br />
years ago! As it is now, it is extremely difficult to<br />
build up a tropical collection on account of the<br />
Federal Horticultural Board and the State Plant Board.<br />
Even seeds of palms and ornamentals cannot be imported<br />
without their consent and this bureauocracy must prove<br />
extremely detrimental to -------- .I1 and more. Problems<br />
with the restriction on importing crotons, ixoras,<br />
dracaenas. "I begged [the Bureau of Plant Industry]<br />
years ago to obtain for me seeds of the Indian<br />
Sirer (?) Tree (Ptereosph-----ace----- )(?) .... I finally<br />
just last week obtained a package of seed from the<br />
Botanical Gardens at Calcutta at my own request, also<br />
I I<br />
seeds of Tectonia grandi and Mim----Elengii . . .<br />
Next letter in this file is Sept. 9, 1923. It consists of 6 pages.<br />
"The two Hippenstrum solandiflum conspicum (?) will go<br />
tomorrow, also the pollen of Tillandsia lindeni."<br />
Then names plants set out. "I made deep holes (3 ft.<br />
deep, 4 & 5 ft. wide) and filled them with old grass<br />
----- ----- , compost and put over this a layer of top<br />
soil which I mexed with tankage. I planted out at least<br />
400 of these plants the latter part of the week."<br />
He then names:<br />
50 royal palms<br />
28 Porto Rico royal palms<br />
8 coconut palms,<br />
3 Teminalia -----<br />
12 Flacaurtia Ramontchi<br />
12 Gardenia Thunbergia<br />
12 Antiderma nitiva (?)<br />
30 Premna adorata (?)<br />
2 Pithecolobium [Pithecellobium] dulce<br />
3 Lagerstroemia Flos-Reginae<br />
12 Paritium elatum<br />
8 Antidesma Buniua (?)<br />
12 Couroupita guianensis<br />
3 Marantea guianensia (?)<br />
8 Cordia Sebestena<br />
1 Bischof ia javanica<br />
12 Coeur flexuosa (?)<br />
3 Elaeis guineensis<br />
1 Attalea Colume (?)<br />
3 Pittosporum floribumdum<br />
12 Spathodea nilotina<br />
and many more.
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