Ferdinand von Mueller

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Assumed to be Daniel Morris (1844-1933), Assistant Director at Kew.

10/12/87

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Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 23 Jan 1888.

Best thanks, dear Mr Morris, for the seeds of

Vaccinium Myrtillus

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seeds,

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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 17 August 1887 (in this edition as 87-08-17c).

which shall have every care bestowed on them in a cold frame, after sowing in healthy forest soil. But the chances of raising Vaccinium seeds are always small and particularly it is so with those of V. Myrtillus, unless taken just fresh out of the fruit, and even then it is difficult to raise and nourish seedlings. Many years ago I induced Dr and Madame Sonder, to make purposely an excursion, to secure me a living plant late in the autumn, and to pack it as dead good

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i.e. not requiring attention on a voyage as live goods would.

into a close box within dry sphagnum. The experiment succeeded to perfection, the plant growing anew in a cold frame here; but at that time access to the Australian alps, for planting it out there were difficult, and when the next Summer heat came on with the Sirocco, I lost the plant under glass, and had not the courage to ask Dr and Mrs Sonder to go once more to the same trouble. Now we have railways to the foot of the Alps here