27/9/66
Dear Dr Hooker
When despatching to you my ordinary communications by the official letter bag I forgot to mention that I most gratefully accept your really very friendly offer of sending Mesembryanthema & other South African Succulentae. My collection of these plants is not very rich, and what I have did mostly not come from South Africa direct but from Palermo. Some of the Mesembryanthema on our lawns are absolutely dazzling, when the sunlight strikes them on fine days. I should think they will come well in the cheap Calico-covered cases. We have so many rockeries here & so many arid exposed places that these fleshy plants prove always of great value.
Prof Balfour could easily send you a small portion of the Scleranthus biflorus. You will never raise it from seeds, I fear. My edgings, made of it, are most charming.
Your regardful
Ferd Mueller
Many thanks for your friendly exertions for my new Orchid Collection2
The occasional appearance of a figure of my plants in the Bot. Mag. would be a great support to my garden
The Tillaea recurva is a most valuable plant to place under fountains where water falls &c
Mesembryanthemum
Scleranthus biflorus
Tillaea recurva
Please cite as “FVM-66-09-27,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-09-27