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93.00.00g

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Ferdinand von Mueller to an unknown correspondent, 1893 [93.00.00g]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-00-00g-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'News and Notes', Southern times (Bunbury, WA), 7 October 1893, p. 3. The correspondent has not been identified, but there were a number of residents of the area who supplied M with plant specimens; see Maroske & Vaughan (2014) for a number of families around Busselton, Vasse and Bunbury active at this time. Among these, R. F. Pries is known to have received the grass Panicum spectabile from M (Southern times (Bunbury, WA), 21 August 1894, p. 3). Other collectors from the district are listed in Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH).
[We learn that some of the roots of marram grass referred to in our issue of 30th ulto.
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In the issue of 30 September 1893, p. 3, the newspaper had reprinted an article from an unidentified newspaper describing the successful control of sand drift by marram grass at Port Fairy, Vic, and elsewhere after it was introduced by M, and stated that plants could be obtained from the Port Fairy Borough Council. The article concluded 'it will, therefore, be perhaps well if someone will obtain a few of the roots from the above mentioned source as their introduction in this colony might be of infinite value to a number of the large stockowners on the coast stations'.
were received from Baron Sir F. Von Mueller a few months ago and have been planted in the neighbourhood of Busselton. The plants are looking strong and healthy and there is every prospect of this useful grass becoming in a few years' time as great a benefactor to our sandy wastes as it has proved in the sister colonies.]