Melbourne bot. Garden
27/11/65
Sir George
I have to express to your Excellency my most grateful acknowledgement for your goodness in causing my establishment to be supplied not merely with a quantity of seeds of the N. Z. Areca, but also with a number of living plants of this noble palm. As the species is so hardy I am anxious to introduce it into all the cooler latitudes, in which among tall palms only the N. Z Areca and our Australian southern Livistona & Seaforthia will Grow. The latter palms are within my reach, but I am glad to be able through Your Excellency's kindness to add now also the New Zealand Palm to those others rendered already available to my correspondents.1
I need not say, that I will be extremely glad to send from hence to your Excellency anything that may be needed here for introduction into your territory, be it of the animal or vegetable world as far as it is within my reach.
With profound & grateful regards I remain, dear Sir George, your
Ferd. Mueller.
His Excellency Sir Geo. Grey, K.C.B.
&c &c &c
Areca
Livistona
Seaforthia
Please cite as “FVM-65-11-27,” 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