Ferdinand von Mueller

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'A eucalyptus forest', Gardeners' chronicle, 8 November 1879, p. 592. It is dated to September 1879 as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to be discussed in the issue of 8 November.

[We are indebted to the kindness of Baron F. von Mueller for a clever pen-and-ink sketch, made by Mr. Brown,

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J. Ednie Brown.

the Forest Inspector of South Australia, from which our illustration (fig. 98) was prepared.

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The drawing, captioned 'Fig. 98.—View in an Australian forest of the sugar Eucalyptus (see p. 592)' is reproduced on p. 593.

The species of Eucalyptus represented is E. corynocalyx, which extends from Spencer's Gulf to the Wimmera country in Victoria. It attains a height of 120 feet, and its sweetish foliage is sought by herds and flocks, while the timber has proved durable even underground. In the recently published Eucalyptographia

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B79.13.11, decade 2, which was published by the end of August; see advertisement in Argus, 27 August 1879, p. 3.

of Baron von Mueller this species is figured, and is specially recommended for culture in hot dry countries where occasional drought prevails.]