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I sent you several times a few copies of the "American Eagle," containing some of my articles. They were full of printers mistakes. I would like to have your criticism. You are a kindred spirit. You know my enthusiam and Page 4 of my passionate love for plants, and you are much better Dec 24, 1923 able to judge whether or not these articles are "printable" than anybody else. Are they too long or too short? Did I forget to touch on some important points etc. etc. Please let me hear from you." [This letter appears to have page 1 with page 4 on verso] page 2 of New caladium hybrids. Plans to send a large collection to Dec 24, 1923 TM "in order to set you to corss-breeding of the caladiums again." "Reasoner has sent out letters to the effect that they can supply the whole-sale trade with the finest hybrids in existence and that they have a source re- garded as the best caladium grower and breeder in Florida. I have seen this letter. As I know that it is not Mr. Mead to whom they refer--I am at sea to whom their remark as the "best grower and breeder" applies. Has permit to inport entire collection of 12 as named sorts. I' I shall also obtain a large number of fern rhyzomes from Trinidad--all epiphytes. I also get often spores, but I have no facilities to grow them. Would you like to have them? And more about ferns. Jan 7, 1924 "I hope to be able to send you during the next few years not only lots of pollen but also lots of plants of the Bromeliads. I have transplanted my specimens from pots into boxes and they thrive splendidly in them. So I made 15 boxes ready for them, 4 ft. long, 2% ft. wide and 8 in. deep. They were filled up with common soil. I intended to have a separate box for each species, but this would require too much lumber. Such species as Nidularium spectabile, N. Innocentii, N. amazonicum, N. purpureum, N. carolinae, N. fulgens, etc., etc. will soon fill such a box with beautiful rosettes. I have had them all but lost most of them by not being able to attend to them in a practical way. All the trouble will be reduced to a minimum after they have been put in these boxes. I have driven stakes (2 x 4) by 4 ft. long in the soil and the boxes rest on these supports, all the boxes are placed underneath my lath roof or under the shade of trees. I intend to put all my epiphytal ferns also in such boxes. I am trying to obtain a list (lot?) of Bromeliads from our Botanical Gardens, but the directors are all difficult to approach on account of the State Plant Board. This man OfHara, or it is OfByrne, has made the remark that the Botanical Gardens are the breeding places of ------ injurious insects. This idiot has done more to hold up the progress of ornamental horticulture than any one else. My friend Broadmy(?) of the Trinidad Boanical Gardens intended to send me a lot of fern rhyzomes which he wanted to collect
(for cucumbers?) in the forests. The Federal Horticulture Board wrote me, however, that the correct scientific name of each species must be given before a special permit can be obtained. This is going too far in a free country by a set of parasites.. . Do you remember the fine Bromeliads (------ calls it Hohenbergia paniculata (?)) on a tree in Simpson's book? I have just as large a specimen here on a red maple. As a rule the Bromeliads do not do very well on cabbabe palmetto trunks. They dry out too quickly. I think it is too snagf?)/for them. They all seem to require half sunny shade. You are a great hybridizer and I hope to see many a fine new creation come from you. Let me know what you have in the line of Bromeliads and I shall send you somethat you may not have. A number of my most hardy and robust species such as Bromelia and Pitcairnea, are provided with very bad recurved spines. The most beautiful species of the family I - had were: Guzmania (caraguata) musaica Caraguata sanguinea Aechmea Mariae-Reginae, Vrisia fenestralis, V. Saundersii, V. hieroglyphica V. splendens, V. tessellata and a few others I am trying to add them to my collection again. There are a few large private collections in Germany that could be obtained for a song, but the Federal Hort. Board will not give a permit. I could get possession of such a collection consisting of over 500 species and 150 hybrids for $200.00. I have been turned down. They also turned me down when I tried to buy the whole Klissig collection of caladiums--consisting of all the best Bleu, Boure, Hoffmann and Lietze-hybrids." 11 I had the impression that you were very successful with your vegetable garden lately and that you had been for years. Mr. J. E. Hendy Jr. shipt over 15 car loads of cucumbers up to now and netted $4.50 and $5.00 per cucumber in New York and Philadelphia He has 34 acres in cucumbers. Whatever this man takes into his hands turns into gold. He made $17,000 (net) in 3 months with his nursery and the sales consisted almost entirely of royal palms, coconut palms and Bougainvillea "Crimson Lake." I think Achimenes and other tuberous-rooted Gesneriads also would do well in my plant boxes. These boxes hold the moisture better and their drainage is also good. All the superfluous water runs off. A fine collection of these plants could be had from H------ Schmidt. Do you know of any specialist here in our land? We have so many rich people. Why does not Peter McDuff, Roger Smith and Raymond Lovelinen (?) take up palms, while
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- 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 and 16: June 16, 1922 Naples. "Under sepera
- Page 17 and 18: Dec 17, 1922 (continued) dictyosphm
- Page 19: Talks about preparing the land agai
- Page 23 and 24: [P.S.] This Bromeliad fever keeps y
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- Page 27 and 28: "I am very anxious to obtain about
- Page 29 and 30: thyrsoidea [He is 71 years old] "Dr
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I sent you several times a few copies of the "American<br />
Eagle," containing some of my articles. They were full<br />
of printers mistakes. I would like to have your criticism.<br />
You are a kindred spirit. You know my enthusiam and<br />
Page 4 of my passionate love for plants, and you are much better<br />
Dec 24, 1923 able to judge whether or not these articles are "printable"<br />
than anybody else. Are they too long or too short?<br />
Did I forget to touch on some important points etc.<br />
etc. Please let me hear from you."<br />
[This letter appears to have page 1 with page 4 on verso]<br />
page 2 of New caladium hybrids. Plans to send a large collection to<br />
Dec 24, 1923 TM "in order to set you to corss-breeding of the caladiums<br />
again." "Reasoner has sent out letters to the effect that<br />
they can supply the whole-sale trade with the finest<br />
hybrids in existence and that they have a source re-<br />
garded as the best caladium grower and breeder in Florida.<br />
I have seen this letter. As I know that it is not<br />
Mr. Mead to whom they refer--I am at sea to whom their<br />
remark as the "best grower and breeder" applies.<br />
Has permit to inport entire collection of 12 as named<br />
sorts. I' I shall also obtain a large number of fern<br />
rhyzomes from Trinidad--all epiphytes. I also get often<br />
spores, but I have no facilities to grow them. Would you<br />
like to have them? And more about ferns.<br />
Jan 7, 1924 "I hope to be able to send you during the next few years not<br />
only lots of pollen but also lots of plants of the<br />
Bromeliads. I have transplanted my specimens from pots into<br />
boxes and they thrive splendidly in them. So I made 15<br />
boxes ready for them, 4 ft. long, 2% ft. wide and 8 in. deep.<br />
They were filled up with common soil. I intended to<br />
have a separate box for each species, but this would require<br />
too much lumber. Such species as Nidularium spectabile,<br />
N. Innocentii, N. amazonicum, N. purpureum, N. carolinae,<br />
N. fulgens, etc., etc. will soon fill such a box with<br />
beautiful rosettes. I have had them all but lost most<br />
of them by not being able to attend to them in a practical<br />
way. All the trouble will be reduced to a minimum after<br />
they have been put in these boxes. I have driven stakes<br />
(2 x 4) by 4 ft. long in the soil and the boxes rest on these<br />
supports, all the boxes are placed underneath my lath<br />
roof or under the shade of trees. I intend to put<br />
all my epiphytal ferns also in such boxes. I am trying<br />
to obtain a list (lot?) of Bromeliads from our Botanical<br />
Gardens, but the directors are all difficult to approach<br />
on account of the State Plant Board. This man OfHara, or<br />
it is OfByrne, has made the remark that the Botanical<br />
Gardens are the breeding places of ------ injurious<br />
insects. This idiot has done more to hold up the progress<br />
of ornamental horticulture than any one else. My friend<br />
Broadmy(?) of the Trinidad Boanical Gardens intended to<br />
send me a lot of fern rhyzomes which he wanted to collect
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