5/5/66
I owe you still, dear Dr Hector, my grateful acknowledgement for sending me the Knightia fruit.1 I can now draw better limits between the 2 genera. I should have written long ago, but the season was a terrific one for drought & with 20000 young trees planted out I had much anxiety on my mind, & much was left otherwise undone.
We have Marattia salicina also in Australia, though only on the N. E. coast.
I am establishing a large fern tree gully here, but am still much in want of good sized stems of Cyathea dealbata. They travel, even when 10 or 12' long quite well if carefully taken up with their root & merely thrown on a place not exposed to salt water
I have no more than 3 or 4 Dammara plants & not many of the NZ Podocarpi.
Can I send you any flowers for your garden? or can I render you any other services?
your regardfully
attached
Ferd Mueller
Cyathea dealbata
Dammara
Knightia
Marattia salicina
Podocarpus
Requested in M to J. Hector, 13 February 1866.
Please cite as “FVM-66-05-05,” 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