Document information

Physical location:

Cat. no. 860.4, Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Victoria. 94.11.17a

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Anna Brotherton, 1894-11-17 [94.11.17a]. 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/1890-6/1894/94-11-17a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

17/11/94
The very handsome plant, just sent by you, dear Miss Brotherton, is the . It is rather rare, and in the progress of rural operations disappears more and more. It constitutes a pretty pot-plant; so that I should like to get well ripened seeds, if such can
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be omitted?
easily procured later in the season.
If any of the 65 plants, exhibited at the Castlemaine-show, should require naming, I will do it with pleasure.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller