24/2/65
Dear Dr Anderson.
The enclosed letter explains itself.1 Can you kindly advise, whether we should apply to any one, known to you as reliable for effecting the purchases. If I was free to act, I would ask Mr Butler; for I have had a very pleasing and advantageous communication with that Gentleman for a series of years & he showed himself always most zealous kind & generous.2 But as some misunderstandings seem to exist between Mr Butler & the Acclimation Society,3 I think it will be better, that the commission should devolve on some other Gentleman.
I would ask, whether the field seed[s], forwarded several months ago through Messers Law Summers & Co. from here arrived safely? Being to some extent responsible for the arrangements I am eager to hear of the safe receipt of the large consignment.
I have sent by this mail to you some few kinds of Pine seeds. My foreign trees are not bearing and of native ones we have only Callitris & I have no access to Araucaria ranges1000 miles from here at a frightful expense. The Eucalyptus seeds I rather enclose in the letter.
Eucalyptus plants must be transferred from pots or sown where they are to remain. I shall look forward gratefully to the Sikkim pine seed[s], you kindly gathered. We never can get too many of them in this country. I shall send you a share of our seed harvest when done.
With friendship
yr
Ferd Mueller
Araucaria
Callitris
Eucalyptus
Please cite as “FVM-65-02-24d,” 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 16 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/65-02-24d