Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne bot Garden

11/5/67.

Dear Sir

In reply to your letter received this morning I beg to inform you, that I shall be happy to supply Mediterranean Pines for your Sand-hill reserve, if you will be so good to inform me, for how many the holes have been sunk. Be so good also to cause each hole to be surrounded densely with branchlets of trees, to shelter the young plants & to arrest the influx of sand. Sheoak- & Broom-seeds might be sown all over the sandy part of the reserve, to render the sand stationary. Any morning at 9 the pines can be supplied, by authorizing some Gentleman to sign the printed forms at my Office. It will be impossible to plant, successfully unless the ground is perfectly secured against goats.

The Blue Gum plants can also be sent, but the number, for which the soil is actually ready should be indicated. These plants must not be kept for many hours out of the ground & be planted immediately into sheltered positions. You will find the Sheoak even better than the wattle for shelter in your spot, and of these no doubt you might have the seeds locally collected. I will gladly supply also for the Cemetery some Arbor Vitae & other suitable shrubs and trees, but it is actually necessary, that the ground should be prepared & its dimensions indicated beforehand.

Let me remain with best regards your

C. Pascoe Esq. &c &c

Townclerk of Eucha.