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No. 1291, unit 2, VPRS 578 Echuca borough letters received 1869, Municipalities, Public Record Office, Victoria. 69.04.28b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Pascoe, 1869-04-28 [69.04.28b]. 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/1860-9/1869/69-04-28b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden
28/4/69.
It affords me very much pleasure, dear Mr Pascoe, to send you to day the following young trees and other plants
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The plants had been ordered by Pascoe in response to M to the Echuca Borough Council, April 1869 (in this edition as 69-04-00b).
100
British Oaks
50
Elms
50
Ashes (Chinese)
50
Weeping Willows
100
Stone pines
50
Cluster pines
50
Haleppo pines
50
Moreton Bay Figtrees
6
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All these young trees are two years old.
Besides I have sent a collection of 100 miscellaneous shrubs.
The whole is packed in three cases and one bundle and to be despatched by rail, with the midday's train. You will do well, if the plants are all immediately planted in a temporary nursery, situated in a sheltered position. From thence the young trees could be transplanted later in the season, or what would be better next year in April or May to final positions, at which each would require to be surrounded closely with branches for shelter and to be watered regularly throughout the summer. I will be happy from year to year, when your plantation ground becomes gradually extended, to contribute more towards it. Under proper care you need not loose one single of the plants now forwarded. I had no more Elms than 50 available. So I substituted Ashes for the rest.
The exertions you repeatedly made, to send to the Acclimation Society the Murray Cods entitle you to the utmost praise. I will see them publicly acknowledged by the Society.
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See C. Pascoe to M, April 1869 (in this edition as 69-04-00d).
With best regards
Ferd. von Mueller
In transplanting each young tree should be lifted from your nursery with a ball of earth around the root. It is scarcely needful to remark, that the young trees must be watered with regular care in your nurseries.
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In mid-July the Council planted these trees in the town park, but 'a number of these have laterly been stolen'; a reward of £10 was offered for information that would lead to conviction of the thieves ( Riverine herald , 21 July 1869, p. 2).