Hartwrightia floridana A.Gray

"I heeled in three roots of Hartwrightia here but the
eight inch long stems seem on two dead and the third is still
strong but brown. Mrs# Baker tells me those I sent her a few
days earlier have behaved the same way. When I made the seoond
visit to the Hartwrightia a week after finding them, October
23 - October 30, they had almost all faded and the plants
themselves looked to me as if they were going to retire for
the winter. They were then very inconspicuous. I shall pro-
bably send some sphagnum, a little, with them. This is in a
clay underlay section. If I do not strike the plants on loca-
tion I will send the roots I now have here at this house, As
we are practically rather temporary at this address I should
have to move them anyway and feel they have a better chance
under your direction than with me. If there seem to be any
seed, if I find the plants, I will collect som^as^ihey surely
must be matured by now.*
n I am enclosing parts of the Hartwrig!fr*M Rsowr may
wish to do some work with them before plants cfcCjb.^obtained.
The lower leaf is a small one, about one half the full length
ones. I had sent the longer ones away to friends.
Excerpts from a letter from Mrs. E. W. Lawson dated November E7,f3E
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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