Ferdinand von Mueller

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Offered for sale at Rare Book Auctions, Sydney, 25 March 2012. Transcribed from catalogue image. A printed version with some obvious transcription errors was published in B97.06.01, following M to W. MacGregor, 23 October 1895.

28/9/95

Since I last wrote to you, dear Sir William, I received the enclosed letter from Mr Edgar, the Director of the bot. Garden of Rockhampton.

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Letter not found.

I advised him, to send the Vanilla-plants at once,

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Letter not found.

as the wet season will have set in by the time, in which they can arrive in New Guinea. I presume you have a good practical Gardener there, to initiate these new cultures. you can easily raise from seeds, and these I could procure. But the

Cinchona

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s, as you will see in my work on Select Plants for industrial culture,

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B91.13.10.

should be raised in the least hot upper regions of the mountains. A copy of this work I sent you some four years ago.