The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Longerenong Agl ¶ College ¶ Dooen, ¶ 22/3/89 ¶ My dear Baron von Mueller ¶ ¶ Many thanks for your enclosures of seeds of the varieties of Eucalyptus of which tree I purpose having a collection of s...

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RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 89.03.22a

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Preferred Citation:

William Clarson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1889-03-22 [89.03.22a]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-03-22a-final.odt>, accessed July 17, 2026

Longerenong Agl

Agricultural.

College

Dooen,

Vic.

22/3/89

My dear Baron von Mueller

Many thanks for your enclosures of seeds of the varieties of of which tree I purpose having a collection of such as will suit this district, as also a pinetum embracing all varieties of the .

I am getting Professor Brown,

William Brown.

who has the experimental farm under his direction, to plot off a piece of land on which to grow permanently a specimen breadth of the salsolaceous and other plants rapidly becoming extinct on the sheep runs and farms in these and similar regions.

I enclose you another little specimen of the e, as you enquired whether the plants here were shrubby or herbaceous.

I found a plant yesterday on the railway reserve fully six feet high with a ligneous stem 4 in. in diameter

With kind regard

yours most truly

Wm Clarson

P.S. I am amazed at the unfavorable conditions under which these salsolaceous plants thrive. The embankment round a water dam here is formed of compact intractable clay taken from a great depth, without a trace of sand and no organic matter, and yet these s and form a dense mass of herbage without another plant of any kind.

W.C.