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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1885-12 [85.12.00b]. 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/1880-9/1885/85-12-00b-final.odt>, accessed August 14, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Transport of cuttings', Gardeners' chronicle, 23 January 1886, p. 114 (B86.01.02). It is introduced by 'The following letter from Baron Von Mueller will be of interest to those desirous of sending or receiving cuttings from a distance:—'. The letter is dated to December 1885 as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to appear in this issue.
To show the facility with which cuttings also of rather hard-wooded plants can be sent to very long distances, I may mention that an experiment lately instituted by me in sending cuttings of
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and B. globosa simply packed in wax-cloth, by post, all the way to Madras, proved perfectly successful, as stated by Mr. Lawson
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M. A. Lawson.
and Mr. Gamble , while cuttings of the large-flowered
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shrubs of Upper India, and of some other kinds of plants, reached me in return also quite safely by the same simple process. The time required for the sending of these cuttings was four to five weeks.
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The letter was reproduced in a number of Australian newspapers; see, for example, B86.03.07.