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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 240. 66.09.27

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-09-27. 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/1860-9/1866/66-09-27-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS annotation by Hooker: 'Ansed. [Nov] 19/66'. Letter not found
27/9/66
Dear Dr Hooker
When despatching to you my ordinary communications by the official letter bag I forgot to mention that I most gratefully accept your really very friendly offer of sending Mesembryanthema & other South African Succulentae. My collection of these plants is not very rich, and what I have did mostly not come from South Africa direct but from Palermo . Some of the Mesembryanthema on our lawns are absolutely dazzling, when the sunlight strikes them on fine days. I should think they will come well in the cheap Calico-covered cases. We have so many rockeries here & so many arid exposed places that these fleshy plants prove always of great value.
Prof Balfour could easily send you a small portion of the
Scleranthus biflorus

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. You will never raise it from seeds, I fear. My edgings, made of it, are most charming.
Your regardful
Ferd Mueller
Many thanks for your friendly exertions for my new Orchid Collection
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See J. Hooker to M, 27 June and 31July 1866.
The occasional appearance of a figure of my plants in the Bot. Mag. would be a great support to my garden
The
Tillaea recurva

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is a most valuable plant to place under fountains where water falls &c