Ferdinand von Mueller

Guildford

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WA.

April 4 /93

To Baron Fred Mueller PH & MD

Dear Sir

having a very large Book for sale on Botany I thought perhaps you would like it as it was published MDCCLVII being now 136 years old I will give you a description of it 16 inches long 3 inches thick and 10 inches wide well bound a splendid print with 712 Pages with 60 Plates each Plate showing from 6 to 8 varietes it is well preserved not a leaf lost. I received your address from My Sister (Mrs Thos Smith) to whom you wrote some time ago

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for some Plants or seeds and it was her who advised me to write to you hoping to hear from you so beleive me to remain

Address

Mrs Scrivener

Terrace Road

Guildford

West Australia

I have two other old Books one is The Constitution of England Published MDCCLXXXIV the other is Sacrament of the Lords Supper with forms of Prayer Published MDCCXXXV

Eden Book

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J. Hill (1757). MS annotation by M: 'via Guildford WA'.

or a compleat Body of Gardening containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a Garden Fruits Roots & Herbage from the practice of the most successful Gardeners and the result of a long experience together with the culture of all kinds of Flowers according to the methods of the English French & Dutch Florists and the knowledge of curious Plants after the system of Linnaeus with figures description of the Flowers and Plants proper for a Garden the Business of the seminary for every week in the year catalogues and accurate descriptions of the Fruits as they come into season and new and practical directions for the management of Fruit-Trees with the best methods of culture for the several articles of the Kitchen-Garden and the compleat management of the Ground for raising them in the natural and artificial manner compiled and digested from the papers of the Late celebrated Mr Hale by the authors of the compleat body of Husbandry and comprehending the art of constructing a Garden for use and pleasure the best methods of keeping it in order and the most perfect account of its several products Printed for T Osborne in Greys Inn London T Trye near Greys Inn Gate Holborn S Crowder & Co on London Bridge and H Woodgate at the Golden Ball in Paternoster Row MDCCLVII

It begins

To the Right Honourable The Earl of Bute

it goes on to speak of this Great work and signs himself

I have the Honour to be with the highest regard My Lord your Lordships most obedient and most Humble Servant John Hill

S James Street Nov 5. 1757

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See also M to T. Bride, 16 May 1893, and T. Bride to M, 17 May 1893.