The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [ ¶ STONELESS FRUIT. — ¶ Dr. ¶ Mueller ¶ has ¶ kindly forwarded the following answer to "X.Y.Z.'s" question: ¶ —"I do not see how, theoretically the fact of the fruits getting no stones in the way...

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65.03.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Australasian, 1865-03 [65.03.00b]. 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/1860-9/1865/65-03-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see 'Notes and Queries', Australasian, 1 April 1865, p. 8.

[ STONELESS FRUIT. — Dr. Mueller has kindly forwarded the following answer to "X.Y.Z.'s" question:

The question has not been found.

—"I do not see how, theoretically the fact of the fruits getting no stones in the way described could be explained; nor have I practically witnessed the effects of such a method. Fruits become seedless by luxuriant cultivation under certain circumstances, but only certain kinds—the succulent portion becoming more strongly developed."]

The same article has another answer supplied by M., but it is not clear that it was in the form of a letter or memo:

SOLARUM.—Dr. Mueller says :—" I am not aware to what other tubers as edible Mr. Duffield could have alluded, but to certain peculiar varieties of potato, or some kind of the ordinary tropical yam."

Communications of this sort, which may have been face to face with a journalist, are not included in this edition.