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Ferdinand von Mueller to Samuel Avery, 1886-06 [86.06.00a]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-06-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Agricultural notes', Leader, 5 June 1886, p. 9. It is introduced by:
The encroachment of the sands of the sea have spoiled a large area of valuable land along the southern coasts of the colony, which few attempts have been made to check, though only a matter of labor and no great expense. Our Government Botanist has taken great pains to give instructions for remedying the evil, and has furnished the names of numerous plants of various families that are effectual for the purpose, as well as a quantity of seeds to persons interested. We learn the park ranger of Belfast Mr. S. Avery, has been experimenting on the sands in that neighborhood, and …
The article concludes with a comment that others were applying for plants from Avery, who thought that they needed loose sand to thrive.
The item was republished in Camperdown chronicle, 9 June 1886, p. 4.
[… a few days ago received from Baron von Mueller a letter expressive of the gratification he felt at the success of the planting of certain grasses the Baron had supplied for the checking of the sand drift along the coast, and states that the success in cultivation of the British Marrum (
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) is the first instance in the colony. He also sent some seeds of other classes of sand stayers for Mr. Avery to experiment with.]