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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 282. 89.07.24

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1889-07-24. 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/1880-9/1889/89-07-24-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

24/7/89
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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 31. Aug. 89.
Am glad, dear Mr Dyer, that the
Gymnschoenus

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experiment looks hopeful.
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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 10 October 1888, and M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 April 1889.
Will send in a few months a root of
Restio tetraphyllus

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packed in moist moss. I believe, that it will keep alive thus in a close case, but have vainly tried the sendind
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sending?
in Ward's cases.
The success of
Restio tetraphyllus

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being cultivated is to irrigate it constantly but gently like a
Todea

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.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Restio teteraphyllus grows naturally at or in springs.
Have sent off by this mail steamer the Box which contains the Baskets from the wood of Acac. dealbata.
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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 30 June 1889 (in this edition as 89-06-30a).
With them specimens of utilitarian plants and of
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, just received from New Guinea (Sir W. Macgregor), also carpologic specimens of
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and Eucal macrophylla,
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Eucalyptus macrocarpa interlined in red ink above Eucal macrophylla.
which may serve interchanges.
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Annotated in red ink by Thiselton-Dyer: And 22. 9 89 [letter not found].