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Eugene Hilgard to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03 [96.03.00d]. 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/1890-6/1896/96-03-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Live stock notes. The Australian Salt Bush', Leader, 16 May 1896, p. 10. The extract is introduced by
In continuation of a former communication on Australian salt bushes, the Government Botanist, Baron von Mueller, has received another letter from Professor Hilgard, of the Berkeley University, California. After the baron had suggested the trying of various Australian sat bushes on the quite unutilised alkali lands there, and forwarded seeds for experiments, the alkali land, formerly all but worthless, has now risen to quite a high value.
The letter is dated to March 1896, on the basis that E. Hilgard to M, 26 March 1896, reached Melbourne in time to be extracted and published on 9 May, and this letter is said to be a 'continuation of a former communication'.
The Keris County
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Journalist's error for Kern County, the county of California adjacent to Tulare County, where the University experimental station was situated? See note 2 to E. Hilgard to M, 26 March 1896.
Land Company
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'Professor Hilgard writes,' inserted by the editor.
will for the present year furnish several tons of the seeds of
Atriplex semibarratum

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Journalist's error for Atriplex semmibaccatum?
from its 2000 acres. A firm in Los Angeles has constituted itself propagator of
Australian Salt bushes, and your name is generally recognised as the originator of the salt bush introduction here in all my documents.
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The extract was republished, with an illustration of Atriplex vesicarum, in Chronicle (South Australia), 20 June 1896, p. 41, quoted in 'Australian Saltbush’, Inquirer and commercial news (Perth, WA), 17 July 1896. p. 4, and summarized in Sunday times (Sydney), 28 June 1896, p. 4.