Ferdinand von Mueller

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Forest culture in its relation to industrial pursuits. I. Sydney m ail and New South Wales a dvertiser, 4 November 1871, p. 1124 (B71.11.04). The item is dated to October 1871 as the last date it could have been written if the letter stimulated this reprinting of the lecture given in Melbourne on 22 June 1871 (first published in B71.06.04, see also other sources listed under B71.07.02).

The extract is introduced by 'The following is the first portion of a lecture delivered by Dr. Baron Fred. ( sic ) von Mueller, C.M.G., &c., at Melbourne, on the 22nd June last. Dr. Mueller, in a letter to a gentleman in this city observes:— '.

Your own colony can extend its forest operations still further than ours, inasmuch as you have not only all the climatic conditions of Victoria also in different parts of New South Wales, but as you have besides vast tracts of country for tropical and semi-tropical trees. Thus, for instance, you can grow far more extensively the Peru bark plants than we here; or the red cedar, and many other plants for which we have not the same extent of warm and humid area as that of New South Wales. So it is with West India mahogany, the teak, and a multitude of other trees, some of which we cannot grow to advantage in any part of Victoria, however wide otherwise our scope for forest operations may be.

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The text of the first of four parts of the lecture follows immediately; the remainder was published in the next three editions of the newspaper.