[The Plane or Platinus2 Tree. — Your Committee recommend that the Town Clerk write to Dr. Mueller, Melbourne, asking him if he could oblige the Council by forwarding, at our expense, a further number—say one or two hundred3 — of the above or other suitable trees, for planting in the Park Lands and City Squares.]
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Public works report' in a report of the meeting of the Adelaide Municipal Corporation held on 21 May 1866, South Australian weekly chronicle, 26 May 1866. The committee report was adopted.
Platanus? Platinus is a common misspelling.
M had previously sent 50; see M to S. Davenport, June 1865 (in this edition as 65-06-00c).
Please cite as “FVM-66-05-00i,” 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