The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: March 28/70 ¶ Dear Mueller ¶ ¶ Thanks for yours of 6/11/69 & 4/12. Thozet asks me to send you ¶ Artemisia Dracunculus ¶ of which I am trying to get seed for you ¶ ¶ I sent you a bag of Argania see...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 70.03.28b

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Aconite
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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-03-28 [70.03.28b]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/70-03-28b>, accessed September 11, 2025

March 28/70

Dear Mueller

MS annotation by M: 'Pentzia virgata I have from McOwan'.

Thanks for yours of 6/11/69 & 4/12. Thozet asks me to send you of which I am trying to get seed for you

I sent you a bag of seeds, it should be a most valuable thing for your Colony in droughts especially.

More big s will be most acceptable — it is growing famously.

I am most anxious to know how the Nepenthes and the Sarraceniae got out

I will see about sending roots next winter

See M to J, Hooker, 14 August 1869 (in this edition as 69-08-14c).

— it is too late this spring — ask again by next winter for what you most want & I will send them in damp moss overland.

I have sent , , &c in the cases already.

See J. Hooker to M, 8 December 1869.

With regard to your animadversion on the Cape for not sending big s,

See M to J. Hooker, 6 November 1869 (in this edition as 69-11-06a).

— they do not grow big there — we have had their state of the plants for 30 years in growth.

I can send you Cork plants in a Wards case, a little later it is too cold yet for Wards cases.

Sincerely Yr

Jos D Hooker