Office of Lands and Survey,
Melbourne,
6th April, 1866.
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that the Board of Land and Works, having made arrangements for planting in the reserves vested in that Body, about four thousand (4,000) trees during this season as it is necessary that, with the very limited supply of labor at command, an immediate commencement be made in the pulling out of the potted pines and cypresses to be furnished by you, as arranged.
Will you, therefore, have the goodness to deliver to Mr Bickford (the Park Inspector) 100 large specimens of Pinus Insignis, which in your letter of the 22nd December 18651 you undertook to supply, together with 500 (500) other choice potted Californian and Himalayan Pines and Cypresses.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
John L. Lewis
For the Assistant Commissioner of Lands & Survey.
The Government botanist
&c &c &c
Pinus Insignis
i.e. M to C. Hodgkinson, 2 December 1865.
Please cite as “FVM-66-04-06,” 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