The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [Mr. Abbott, the Curator of our R.S. Gardens, ¶ has received information direct from Dr. Mueller, that the white mulberry, and particularly that valuable variety of it, the Morus Multicaulis is ¶ ...

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62.03.00b

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Morus Multicaulis
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Francis Abbott, 1862-03 [62.03.00b]. 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//letters/1860-9/1862/62-03-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from a letter to the editor from E. Swarbreck Hall headlined 'Silk husbandry in Tasmania', Mercury (Hobart), 13 March 1862, p. 2.

M's letter is dated to March as the latest month it could have been written, but it may have been written at any time before then.

[Mr. Abbott, the Curator of our R.S. Gardens,

i.e. the Hobart Botanic Gardens, administered by the Royal Society of Tasmania.

has received information direct from Dr. Mueller, that the white mulberry, and particularly that valuable variety of it, the is being planted largely, and grows freely from cuttings.]