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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon   30 May 1861

Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,

30. May 1861

My dear Mr Fitzgibbon,

I have secured the weeping willows for the Yarra banks1 and can aford the labour for digging the holes to plant them, but I do not see how I can possibly manage to get the protections put up for the trees, my employees being overwhelmed with work on my own ground during this season.

Allow me therefore to ask, whether there would be any possibility to obtain through the favor of the Municipality some Mechanics attendance to put up the tree guards,for which the Council was pleased to grant the material.

You will be aware that the trees are not intended for my own ground, but for that of the City Council.

In Domain Street opposite Millswyn Street a drain has been built recently, which conveys the whole of the water collecting on the northern side of the street into the botanic Garden.

May I solicit your friendly aid to impress on the Gentlemen of the City Council the desirability of sanctioning, that the channel along the footpath may be deepened from 1 to 1½ foot so as to admit of the proper effluence of the drainage in a westerly direction

With high regard

dear Sir,

yours

Ferd. Mueller.2

1

See M to E. FitzGibbon, 24 October 1860, and subsequent correspondence.

2

E. FitzGibbon to M, 31 May 1861, responded to both topics in this letter.

Please cite as “FVM-61-05-30,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/61-05-30