Melbourne botanic Garden,
20. June 62
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated 18 June,1 and beg in reply to inform you, that of the plants desired by Mr Sinclair for Fitzroy Gardens only those of the Callitris are available of sufficient size for being planted out this season. Of some of the other kinds enumerated, including the Deodars and the Cryptomerias, the plants will have gained next season sufficient strength for being planted out.
Of Stone pines I have a sufficient supply of plants available fit for being moved to their final place of destination this season and will gladly place such number as may be needed of this species for Fitzroy Gardens at the Superintendents disposal, anticipating that sufficient protection exists for the plants on the ground, as young specimens are so easily abstracted and by the incautious approach of pedestrians or by the play of children destroyed
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient and humble servant
Ferd. Mueller.
Director of the botanic Garden
The honorable C. G. Duffy Esq. MLA
President of the Board of Land & Works
&c &c &c2
Callitris
Cryptomeria
C. Duffy to M, 18 June 1862 (in this edition as 62-06-18b).
On 23 June 1862, C. Hodgkinson, Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey, minuted: 'Urgent Dr Mueller is requested to supply a list of the plants and shrubs which he can supply this year for the completion of the planting of the Metropolitan Reserves'. M replied on 24 June: 'Callitris x | Cypresses x | White mulberrytrees | Grevillea robusta, 1 year old x | Pittosporum undulatum x | Some miscellaneous pines x | Rooted cuttings of miscellaneous shrubs x | Seedlings of miscellaneous shrubs x | Gleditschias x | Pinus pinea x | Willows x | Poplars, small.' It is not known who marked the names with an X.
Please cite as “FVM-62-06-20,” 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