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Physical location:

ML MSS. 562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 76.07.10

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1876-07-10. 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/1870-9/1876/76-07-10-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

10/7/76
Herewith, dear Mr Ramsay, fresh seeds of the best
Cinchona

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, the red one, so rich in Quinin. The plant ought to become important for your sheltered fernglens.
Did you or your brother ever see a true Bamboo in the N.
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Ramsay had spent some time in the 1860s in the Clarence River and Richmond River districts of northern NSW, and in working a sugar plantation near Maryborough, Qld. In the latter venture he was accompanied by his younger brother Percy (b. 1848).
Of course I do not mean the
Phragmites

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, the common cosmopolitan species, which dies down every year
We want all these
Gramineae

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timely for vol. VII.
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i.e. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7.
Is still any one of your horticultural establishment
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The Ramsay family's Dobroyd plant and seed nursery, Ashfield, NSW.
in the North? Remember that whoever is there has a rare chance , the best yet in Australia, to distinguish himself by collecting (there may be any day competition from abroad)
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there may be any day competition from abroad is a marginal insertion by M: parentheses have been added for clarity.
carefully all the jungle plants in flower — & fruit — specimens, particularly those of trees. I feel somewhat disappointed, that after several years of writing not a single one of my N. Correspondents has managed to send me a bundle of real good or rare specimens, when the finder would earn lasting merit from very little toil.
Regardfully
Ferd von Mueller