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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1866-10 [66.10.00f]. 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/1860-9/1866/66-10-00f-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Foreign correspondence. Garden labels', Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette , 1 December 1866, p. 1141 (B66.12.01). It is dated to October as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been included in this issue.
Can you not induce some of your manufacturers to produce some good permanent metallic garden-labels, with fused metallic writing, or with the coloured letters burnt in, as in glass-work, by igneous fusion? Assuredly the process would not require extraordinary ingenuity, and with British appliances could be readily carried out. Labels of all the readily cultivated trees and shrubs would sell well, even at a high price, and how much would they add to the beautiful appearance of any garden of public instruction! Indeed, smaller labels of such sorts would be bought for every collection of house plants possessed by intelligent proprietors.
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The text is followed by 'The realisation of our correspondent's wishes might be forwarded if the Royal Horticultural Society, or the Society of Arts, would offer a prize for the best labels of the kind mentioned.'
The fifth volume of my "Fragmenta" will appear before the end of the year.
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The bound vol. 5 (B67.02.07) was reviewed in Sydney morning herald, 11 February 1867, p. 2.
Ferd. Mueller .