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Physical location:

Am 27/1, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 81.09.17

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Annie Walker, 1881-09-17. 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/1880-9/1881/81-09-17-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

17/9/81.
The climbers sent by you, dear Miss Walker, are:
Clematis glycinoides

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Kennedya monophylla

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Kennedya rubicunda

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Tecoma australis

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Smilax australis

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The trailing
Pultenaea

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cannot be named with exactitude in the absense of fruit & flowers
Your paintings, concerning which you question me, are good outline and general representations, such as amateurs like to see in Albums of drawing rooms. If you speak of strictly botanical drawings, then in yours the analytic details are wanting. A model for botanic drawings in Sydney is Mr Fitzgeralds work on Orchids published in Sydney.
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R. Fitzgerald (1875-94).
As regards inspection of any drawing with a magnifying glass for seeing more than is seen by the unaided eye, is an impossibility in ordinary hand painting or indeed any painting, so far as art is advanced now a days Indeed even the celebrated Fitch
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Walter Hook Fitch, illustrator for Curtis's botanical magazine and other botanical works, including the lithography for B82.13.21.
has not achieved that in his 40 years career!
With best compliments
Ferd. von Mueller.