To Charles Tyers   26 August 1859

Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,

26. Aug. 1859

Sir

I have the honor to inform you, that I received this week pr "Saracen" part of the plants & seeds ordered from Messrs Henderson of London for your department.1 The seeds arrived all in good condition, being packed according to my advise in charcoal, and of the plants, which arrived in three glass-cases a larger share is alive and in good health, than usually are received in similar consignments. Since this establishment possesses greater facilities for rearing and multiplying plants, than any other of the Governments, I beg to suggest, that the plants should be left here for the purpose of multiplying them, and that the main portion of the seeds should be sown in the nursery of this garden, from whence the young plants could be distributed next year to the parks & reserves.

In the invoice, which I have the honor to append I have marked those plants which arrived alive.2

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your most obedient and humble servant

Ferd. Mueller

Gov. Botanist

 

Mr Commissioner Tyers.3

1
See also M to J. O'Shanassy, 25 August 1859 (in this edition as 59-08-25a).
2
Invoice not found.
3
MS annotation by Tyers, 28 August: 'Acknowledge letter & list — and state that I am the more anxious to accept Dr Muellers offer as we have no ground prepared to receive the plants & seeds — and have not the means (particularly now the season has so far advanced) of paying that attention to them which they require after so long a voyage.'

Please cite as “FVM-59-08-26,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/59-08-26