Office of Lands & Survey,
Melbourne, 7th. May, 1862.
Sir,
I have the honor to furnish the following lists of plants required for the Reserves in the vicinity of Melbourne during the current year, and request that you will have the goodness to retain the necessary supplies of the several plants mentioned, until a cart is sent to convey them away on the days specified.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant
Clement Hodgkinson
Assist. Commr. of Lands and Survey.
The Government Botanist,
&c. &c. &c.
Plants required for the Fitzroy Gardens to be sent for on Friday May 9th at 8.30 am
A few specimens of valuable species of Pinus and some arborescent cupressi from California as promised in your note to me dated 26th April.1
12 Deodar Cedars
10 Spreading Poplars
20 Potisporums2
100 Pinus Pinaster
100 Pinus Pinea
Plants required for Reserve around Crown Lands Office to be sent for on May 16th at 8.30 am.
10 Grevillia3 — in pots
10 Pinus Pinea
10 Pinus Pinaster
10 Cypress
10 Ordinary Poplars
10 Spreading Poplars
10 White flowering acacia
10 [Oleanders]
A few […]
South Park
Plants to be sent for on Tuesday May 23rd.
14 Large Elms (as agreed upon with Dr Mueller)
25 Grevillia in pots
30 White flowering acacia
200 Cypresses
200 Pinus Pinaster
200 Pinus Pinea
Flagstaff Hill Reserve
Plants to be sent for on Monday June 23rd.
50 Cypresses
50 Spreading Poplars
50 Ordinary Poplars
10 Grevillia in pots
50 Blue Gums
20 White flowering acacia
P.S.
The supply of trees and shrubs for the South Park and Flagstaff Hill Reserve cannot be sooner sent for as the requisite fencing in the latter is not yet commenced and in the former is not confirmed yet.
Please cite as “FVM-62-05-07b,” 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