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Orto Botanico, Università degli Studi, Padua. 95.09.15

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Pier Saccardo, 1895-09-15. 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/1890-6/1895/95-09-15-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

15/9/95
Allow me to ask, dear Professor Saccardo, whether in Italy any further measures are adopted against the devastations from
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, than those indicated by Hartig Kirchner, Franck and Tubeuf in their respective volumes .
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M is most likely referring to Hartig (1889), especially pp. 179-84; Kirchner (1890); Frank (1880); and Tubeuf (1895), especially pp. 471-6. There are copies of all four works in the library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
Perhaps minor publications exist giving other means of coping with this destructive fungus; and it is also difficult here at the antipodes to know whether perhaps in journals new remedies have recently be
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been?
recommended.
A. melleus occurs here particularly in forests, and if rural plantations are formed in clearings of woodlands, then on some places the mycelium will destroy through strangling and sucking the roots destroy many kinds of trees, such as
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,
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&c &c. I shall therefore be most thankful to you for any special information which you may be able to afford from Italy.
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In 'The honey coloured fungus', Leader (Melbourne), 11 January 1896, p. 12, it was reported that 'by last mail Professor Saccardo, of Padua, the greatest mycologist of the present time, writes to the Government Botanist that it is found out that the
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destroys mulberry trees there' (letter not found).
Can I send you anything specially from here.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller