From Joseph Hooker   15 August 1867

Aug 15/671

Dear Mueller

I enclose a list of plants in Wards Case sent per Damascus.2 Please, if you can recollect to do so, inform me of the precise condition the case arrives in as to glass, packing &c. it is one of a new batch.3

Can you send us Kingia, Baxteria, Anigozanthos seeds & such like things? & above all seeds of Epacrideae of which we are quite out.

Ever sincerely Yrs

Jos D Hooker

 

Epacrideae

Kingia

Baxteria

Anigozanthos

1
MS embossed with seal of the 'Royal Gardens Kew'.
2
Damascus arrived in Melbourne from London via Plymouth on 17 November 1867.
3
The last part of this paragraph is marked with two crosses in the left-hand margin.

Please cite as “FVM-67-08-15,” 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/67-08-15