The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 2/6/96. ¶ ¶ Recently, dear Mr Cheeseman, I sent you roots of the West African Wonder-Grass, Panicum spectabile, which I introduced into Australia and Polynesia, and which may not yet have reached Auc...

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Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand. 96.06.02a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Cheeseman, 1896-06-02 [96.06.02a]. 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/1890-6/1896/96-06-02a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

2/6/96.

Recently, dear Mr Cheeseman, I sent you roots of the West African Wonder-Grass, , which I introduced into Australia and Polynesia, and which may not yet have reached Auckland, where in the almost frostless and always humid climate this grass should have a grand future! Tell me kindly, whether you had it already. With you it would be an uncomparable summer-grass. Of course, you can help it through the first cool season by putting during night frosts an inverted lidless box over it.

You promised me well matured fruits of , perhaps they did not ripen this season.

Now I am troubling you about a set of s and the . I find what I have here is almost entirely without ripe fruit Can you spare me specimens. Do you regard perhaps from fresh color of the flowers most of Sir Jos. Hooker's species

J. Hooker (1853-55), vol. 1, pp. 50-51, vol. 2, p. 327; J. Hooker (1864-7), pp. 48-50, 727.

well founded? I have had only the ordinary one, as first described, under cultivation.

Herewith as a private gift of mine the newest edition of the "Select Plants".

B95.08.04. This copy, in private hands, is inscribed by M: 'To Th. Cheeseman Esqr. | FLS., FZS., Curator of the Museum and bot Garden of Auckland, for friendly remembrance, and occasional use from the writer of these pages. | June 1896.'

This and other works of mine are not distributed to public institution through my branch of the service, unless in exceptional cases, but through the public Library here.

If you have at any time seeds of the rarer NZ. plants ripening, may I have some? What can I send you from here? Have you the "second Census of Australian Plants?"

B89.12.03.

I could send it, if you let me know soon .

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller