Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 67.00.00

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Michael Guilfoyle, 1867. 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/1860-9/1867/67-00-00-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

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Letter found with a collection of letters from M to Michael and William Guilfoyle. Letter must be dated after the publication of the Guilfoyles' catalogue in 1866 and before early February 1868, when M would have learned that he was entitled to add ‘von’ to his name. The letter may have been addressed to Michael Guilfoyle’s son William but, at this date, Michael is the more likely addressee.
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An unknown amount of text missing.
send me a copy of your new catalogue
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Guilfoyle & Son (1866).
& I will give you a list.
Of Cinchona Condaminea, the Loxa Bark tree, I can send an enormous number of plants & this will in the colder & drier parts of Australia prove likely the most hardy. It does well here under a mere bower of
Melaleuca

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boughs with a temperature occasionally sinking below 40° F. You should push Cinchona Tea, Coffee, Mahogoni Corkoak &c into the wooded vallies . I have to bring thus soil 30 miles from the fern tree gullies to pot my Cinchonae! The West Austr Mahogoni is the best of all woods to resist in salt water the borings of minute crustacea &c.
Trusting that your health is quite restored, I remain, dear Sir, your very regardful
Ferd Mueller.
At what ratio could we exchange
Araucaria imbricata

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for A. excelsa, A Cookii, A. Cunninghamii & A. Bidwillii? Are seeds of
Corypha Australis

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available.