Office of Lands & survey
Melbourne, 28th Feby 1865.
Dear Sir,
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 21st instant,1 and to thank you for the valuable suggestions conveyed therein which I will at once carry out as far as practicable.
I shall be exceedingly glad if on some day during the next month (March) you will meet me in order to make a formal inspection of the plants in the public parks vested in the Board of Land and Works, and that you may subsequently favor the Board with advice with regard to the future treatment of the plants.2
I would mention that I carefully conformed to the verbal directions you formerly gave me with regard to the treatment of the Pinus Insignis, — and I am happy to state that the growth of the few of those plants placed in the Fitzroy Garden and the Flagstaff Reserve, has been unprecedentedly vigorous.
The fish in Fitzroy Garden are nearly all of a black or grey color. I will, however, endeavour in the course of a few days to have some of them caught for His Excellency.3
I remain,
My dear Sir,
Yours very truly,
C. Hodgkinson
Dr Mueller,
Government Botanist,
&c. &c. &c.
Pinus Insignis
Please cite as “FVM-65-02-28a,” 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