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M62.09.29

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Regulations, 1862-09-29 [M62.09.29]. 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/mentions/selected/M62-09-29-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Published in Victoria Government Gazette, 7 October 1862, p. 1917. For an earlier version of the regulations see notes to M to J. O'Shanassy, 27 June 1862.
DISTIBUTION OF PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDENS.
THE Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved of the subjoined Regulations in reference to the distribution of plants, Cuttings, and Seeds from the Botanic Gardens of Melbourne, viz.: —
1. Government departments may be supplied with any plants, cuttings, or seeds (fruit trees excepted), as far as such can be made conveniently available without undue abstraction of labor from the general establishment.
2. For the gardens or reserves of public institutions, plants, cuttings, and seeds shall be supplied as far as they are conveniently available, but exclusive of avenue trees or fruit trees.
3. Donors, or gentlemen who have rendered services to the Botanic Garden, may, on their special request, be supplied in a proportion not exceeding the approximate value of their contribution, or in a ratio approximate to the service rendered, with plants, cuttings, seeds, or cut flowers, but cannot obtain plants of the ordinary kinds of florists' flowers, or pines, avenue and fruit trees, from the garden.
4. Cut flowers may be supplied for benevolent or artistic purposes, or for public festivals.
5. Plants needed in a fresh state may, when available, be supplied for medicinal purposes.
[6.] Plants or seeds of any species promising to be of extensive utility to the colony, may when available, be distributed in small quantities to private gardens, without restrictions.
7. Interchanges with public and private gardens beyond the colony may be carried on unlimited by the above rules.
By His Excellency's Command,
JOHN O'SHANASSY.
Chief Secretary's office
Melbourne, 29th September, 1862.
4104.