| 6In sending specimens of plants for investigation it is
desirable to have the leaves, flowers, and fruit; and in the
case of bulbous plants, the bulbs, also. When they are
sent from a distance it is best to prepare the specimens
by drying them under pressure between folds of absorbent
paper, otherwise the parts shrink and break to as to
be hardly recognizable. When the dried plants are sent
they should be protected from breakage in the mail by
being inclosed between pieces of stiff pasteboard. Packages
weighing less than four pounds can be sent by mail
at the rate of one cent per ounce. Write the name of the
sender on the outside. In the letter accompanying the
speciemens state where collected, the date, and any other
particulars of the plant, whether reputed poisonous, pestiferous,
medicinal, or useful.
United States
Department of Agriculture,
Bureau of Botany,
Washington, D. C., Jany 5th 1885
Prof. C.E. Bessey
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
Dear Sir
I have the pleasure of informing
you that in accordance with your request our
Botanical division has prepared for the Herbarium
of your Institution a box of dried plants, consisting
of over 2000 species, partly of American and
partly of foreign kinds, which I trust will prove
an acceptable contribution.
The box, weighting probably over 100 pounds, will be forwared
by Express.
Respectfully
Geo B. Loring
Commissioner | 6In sending specimens of plants for investigation it is
desirable to have the leaves, flowers, and fruit; and in the
case of bulbous plants, the bulbs, also. When they are
sent from a distance it is best to prepare the specimens
by drying them under pressure between folds of absorbent
paper, otherwise the parts shrink and break to as to
be hardly recognizable. When the dried plants are sent
they should be protected from breakage in the mail by
being inclosed between pieces of stiff pasteboard. Packages
weighing less than four pounds can be sent by mail
at the rate of one cent per ounce. Write the name of the
sender on the outside. In the letter accompanying the
speciemens state where collected, the date, and any other
particulars of the plant, whether reputed poisonous, pestiferous, medicinal, or useful.
United States
Department of Agriculture,
Bureau of Botany,
Washington, D. C., Jany 5th 1885
Prof. C.E. Bessey
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
Dear Sir
I have the pleasure of informing
you that in accordance with your request our
Botanical division has prepared for the Herbarium
of your Institution a box of dried plants, consisting
of over 2000 species, partly of American and
partly of foreign kinds, which I trust will prove
an acceptable contribution.
The box, weighting probably over 100 pounds, will be forwared
by Express.
Respectfully
Geo B. Loring
Commissioner |
