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93.06.19a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Neylon, 1893-06-19 [93.06.19a]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-06-19a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Correspondence', in the report of the meeting of the Port Fairy Borough Council held on 21 June 1893, in Port Fairy gazette, 23 June 1893, p. 2. The item is dated to 19 June as the latest date it could have been written.
[From Baron von Mueller, enclosing applications for marum
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marrum? (more usually spelled marram)
grass from Natal
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South Africa.
and West Australia, respectively, and asking that the requests might be complied with.]
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The report continues: Town Clerk to reply that the matter would receive attention'.
The Port Fairy correspondent for the Warrnambool standard reported: 'There have been received, through Baron von Mueller, applications from distant places for seeds or plants of the Marram-grass, from Natal, South Africa, and from Western Australia and New Zealand. Mr. S. Avery, an expert in its plantation and growth, has prepared directions as to its cultivation, and the photos prepared by him, showing its growth and habit, are highly esteemed by all who have been supplied with and successfully established under his directions, this magnificent stay grass.' (Warrnambool standard, 24 June 1893, p. 4). For publication of Avery's instructions see M to S. Avery, October 1893 (in this edition as 93-10-00c) and notes thereto.