The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: March 19/69 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ We are putting up a case of Sarracenias for you, but I greatly fear that this early season is much against them ¶ — I will send Nepenthes in summer ¶ ¶ The followi...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 69.03.19b

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Banksia
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Epacrideae
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Epacris
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Nepenthes
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Osmunda Barbara
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Sarracenia
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Xanthorrhoea Pumilio
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Xanthorrhoea arborea
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Xanthorrhoea australis
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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-03-19 [69.03.19b]. 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/1860-9/1869/69-03-19b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

March 19/69

MS embossed with seal of the 'Royal Gardens Kew'.

My dear Mueller

We are putting up a case of s for you, but I greatly fear that this early season is much against them

M requested in M to J. Hooker, 14 July 1868.

— I will send in summer

The following cases have arrived safe

True Britain

i.e. True Briton , which cleared Port Phillip Heads, bound for London, on 28 October 1868 (Argus, 30 October 1868, p. 4).

Anglesey

Lincolnshire

Essex

I thought that Bentham wrote acknowledging them— will you kindly ask him to acknowledge the arrival of the cases also . I am so enveloped in correspondence that I am apt to overlook little current matters of that sort

Ever sincerely yr

Jos D Hooker

I have so often asked you for seeds and plants of good & s &c that I fear you have them not to send. I do not think that we have 3 sp of in cultn.

cultivation.

Can you send us a Giant Osmunda barbara?

Schomburgk

Richard Schomburgk.

has sent us magnificent Xanthorrhoeas living. The sp with 4 [groove] leaves. We still want good plants (4 feet) of arborea australis & hastilis — We have small plants of one or two & of Pumilio from you.