The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [ ¶ Acacia Melanoxylon ¶ . — Baron von Mueller, of the Botanical Gardens, at Melbourne, in a recent letter to the Secretary of the Bay District Horticultural Society, recommends very highly the ext...

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71.10.00a

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Acacia melanoxylon
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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Bay District Horticultural Society, California, 1871-10 [71.10.00a]. 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/1870-9/1871/71-10-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from the California horticulturist and floral magazine, vol. 2, December 1871, p. 30. In other notices in the journal the name of the Society is given as Bay Area Horticultural Society. The letter is dated to October as the latest likely date it could have been written for it to be reported in this issue of the journal.

[Acacia Melanoxylon. — Baron von Mueller, of the Botanical Gardens, at Melbourne, in a recent letter to the Secretary of the Bay District Horticultural Society, recommends very highly the extensive cultivation of the , as affording the best of timber for furniture and manufacturing purposes.]