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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-6, f. 44. 93.03.07a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1893-03-07 [93.03.07a]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-03-07a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

7/3/93.
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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 7. Apr. 93.; annotated in ink by W. Watson: 179/1893 (i.e. register number in Kew Inwards Book of specimens received); in red ink by W. Hemsley: Ackd 8.4.93; and in pencil by W. Thiselton-Dyer: And 8/4/93 (letters not found).
Am sorry, dear Dr Dyer, that I had lately so little to send to you; but I am just finishing a chromo-lithographic publication on the immigrated Thistles for the Agricuture-Department under the eradication act.
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B93.07.05.
So soon, as it is out, I will send you an impression.
The drawings of Gippsland-Fungs I have returned to Mr Tisdall FLS. A fair lot of seeds of
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in its sport with yellow-striped leaves herewith, just ripened. We find, that a small proportion of the seedlings keep true to this coloration. I do not think, that this yellow-banded form is yet in many gardens.
This day I subscribed for the third time to the Queensl. Flood-fund. The bot Garden has fearfully suffered at Brisbane.
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See Brisbane courier, 23 January 1893, p. 5, col. e, for initial damage to the Botanic Garden, and later editions for the effects of flooding.
Always regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I think to be able, to send you a plant of the wonderful Verticordia, just sufficiently established by a Lady friend of mine, visiting Europe soon.
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Esther Markes, née Gibbs; see M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 June 1893 (in this edition as 93-06-03a).
It will be a great horticultural triumph, if it turns out V. oculata. We, i.e. private friends and I find here, that it strikes from young wood under a bell-glass with bottom-warmth. So you can soon multiply it after flowering.