Ferdinand von Mueller

S. Yarra,

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Melbourne.

27/4/96

When I receive, dear Miss Armytage, kind letters from Ladies, which is not very often, I feel always much cheered, and thus I was also particularly the case when I received

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particularly glad to receive changed by M to particularly the case when I received.

your thoughtful communication,

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Letter not found.

and the grass seeds as I on several occasions, when I called at Como,

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The Armytage family home in South Yarra, Vic.

you all were out or absent in the country. For some few months I shall be overpowered with professional work in my Department, but after that time I hope to call again on the few friends which I have. Perhaps next summer the Mitchell-Grass will be bearing grains, the last season having been one of drought through most parts of Australia

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See also M to C. Armytage, 20 April 1895.

But your mothers N. Queensland's Station

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Afton Downs, near Hughenden, Qld.

suffered less, as it is, I believe within the reach of the tropic summer-rains. I should like very much to know, whether the gigantic annual Teosinte Grass of Mexico and the creeping Wonder-grass Coapim of W. Africa and the Burr Trefoils without burrs from Italy succeeded & become naturalized on the station.

My best thanks for the fruiting specimens of the Mitchell-grass (

Astrebla elymoides

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North Qld.

with denser spike