[At a meeting of vinegrowers, held at the Norfolk Arms,1 June 21, 1867, it was resolved to form a public collection of the vines now in the colony, and to apply to Government to assist in procuring other good varieties not yet introduced. …
Intimation of our intention to form a public collection of vines was sent to Dr. Mueller, of the Botanic Garden in Melbourne, and it was suggested that, if a similar collection were formed In Victoria, the same nomenclature should be used in both colonies; that our collections should be duplicate — each variety being known by a number in the catalogue, and the various names by which it was designated being subjoined. Dr. Mueller, through his assistant, not only gave a favourable reply,2 but also sent off, without delay, to Adelaide, a package of cuttings of the varieties in a collection he is now forming3 which he thought might be unknown in this colony. …
Alex C. Kelly
Tintara vineyard, July 14 1868]
Adelaide, SA.
Letter not found. A response from E. Heyne, M's assistant, rather than from M himself, would be likely in the second half of 1867, when M was at Queenscliff and then in WA.
M was building a 'standard collection of Vines and Orchard trees [which] has annually been added to'; see M to J. Grant, 14 September 1868.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Nomenclature of vines’, a report of a meeting of vinegrowers held in Adelaide on 16 July 1868, South Australian register, 17 July 1868, p. 3. It was introduced by: 'the following letter was read from Rd. Kelly:—'.
The letter is dated to June 1867 as the earliest date on which it could have been written. See also n. 3 below.
Please cite as “FVM-67-06-00d,” 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