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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1878-09-29.
Hay, Murrumbidgee ¶ ¶ I write from a far inland little township of New South Wales, after my return from the Lachlan River, where I wished particularly at this spring season to trace the minute annua...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1878-10-11.
Melbourne: ¶ Oct ¶ . 11 ¶ I have already written to you from the Murrumbidgee River about the extraordinary frequency of two of the dwarf salt-bushes from the Murrumbidgee to the Lachlan River, and ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Société nationale d'acclimatation de France, 1885-10-??.
[ ¶ The meetings secretary laid upon the table on behalf of Baron von Mueller, Government Botanist at Melbourne: (1) several notes concerning Australian plants; (2) seeds of the following plants: ¶ E...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Léon Dejardin, 1888-12-10.
10/12/88 ¶ M. le Chevalier De Jardin, ¶ Consul General for France. ¶ ¶ It gives me much pleasure, dear Consul, to send some more seeds of one of the best saltbushes for sheep-pastures, just received ...
Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire to Jules Cambon, 1892-01-??.
Governor General, ¶ The National Society of Acclimatization of France has just received from Baron von Mueller, government botanist in Melbourne, a collection of plant seeds which seem to me most inte...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Nathaniel McKay, 1893-??-??.
¶ I beg to advise that the sub-saline places in the Mallee country be sown with the best salt-bushes for sheep pasture. The immense success obtained in South Africa right up to the Transvaal with our...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Indian Forester, 1893-06-24.
Sir, ¶ ¶ Since the fiftieth year of this century and during several years' field studies before that time, I have exerted myself for the introduction and extensive cultivation of the ¶ best ¶ speci...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Société nationale d'Acclimatation de France, 1893-11-??.
[Baron F. von Mueller of Melbourne sent samples of ¶ Atriplex halimoides ¶ , ¶ Atriplex prostratum ¶ and ¶ Atriplex spongiosum ¶ , plants of Central Australia, which he says provide excellent fora...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Léon Dejardin, 1894-04-22.
Private ¶ 22/4/94 ¶ ¶ If you like, dear Consul, to send my large illustrated work "Iconography of Australian Salsolaceous plants" ¶ to your Government, I feel sure, that the hon. the Premier on a wr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1894-06-05.
5/6/94. ¶ ¶ As you may wish, dear Dr Dyer, to distribute seeds (fruits) of the best Austral. salt-bushes for sheep-pastures, I have sent a considerably quantity of those of A. halimoides and A. vesic...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1894-07-23.
23/7/94. ¶ ¶ By this weeks mail, dear Dr Dyer, I send you what must be considered a great prize a comparatively large lot of seeds (fruits) of Atriplex vesicarium, one of the very best of the Central...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1895-03-??.
¶ Two of the Salt-bushes, described as Atriplex nummularia and A. halimoides by Dr. ¶ Lindley, ¶ have mainly through my efforts become widely established in Africa. Professor ¶ Lindley ¶ , my gene...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-01-11.
11/1/96. ¶ ¶ Your just arrived letter, ¶ highly esteemed Professor, has given me quite special pleasure, since it is again a triumph for the cultivation of saltbush initiated by me. ¶ ¶ The new ach...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-02-14.
14/2/96. ¶ ¶ As I am under the impression, highly esteemed Professor, that you do not yet have the West African ¶ wonder grass ¶ ( ¶ Panicum spectabile ¶ ) over there, which I have introduced into ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Bureau of Agriculture of Western Australia, 1896-06-16.
Melbourne, 16th June, 1896. ¶ ¶ In accordance with your telegram of last week ¶ I have procured seeds of pastoral Salt-bushes, and was fortunate to obtain four of the best sorts quickly, and at mode...