Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.2697, Box K8313, Potts papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 94.06.25

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Potts, 1894-06-25. 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/1890-6/1894/94-06-25-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

25/6/94
In reply to your letter of the 22 June,
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dear Mr Potts, let me say, that the feeding of cattle on the can for any length of time not be advisable, probably not even for a short period, as the foliage would be sure to act diuretically and cause likely other and still more severe mischief. It must be poor pasture-ground where cattle resort to feeding on coniferous trees After the night-frosts I could send you the roots of the Wonder-Grass, , which ought to furnish a splendid summer grass in your district I introduced it into Australia from W. Africa.
Do you as a pharmacist ever collect native plants? If so, I would advise making in your region a speciality of floating and submerged plants, which there have not yet been sufficiently searched for If you send of dried specimens a duplicate numbered set, I will send you the names
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller