To William Hyndman1    31 January 1868

Bot. Gard 31/1/68

Dear Sir

Some time ago I offered to the Melbourne Corporation to furnish to them a number of iron treeguards to be placed in the Richmond Paddock (formerly the Police Reserve) on the now bare banks of the Yarra, trusting that by so doing a commencement would be made in improving that locality by forming plantations. This can however only be done when the cattle now depasturing there have been removed, a measure the desirability of which I have repeatedly urged upon the City Council but without effect. I learnt to day that there will, for the present, be no chance of discontinuing the depasturing of stock in the Reserve in question, but that nevertheless the Council would request you to see to the placing of the treeguards and planting. As under these circumstances I consider the last an almost hopeless undertaking, I think it best I make use of the tree guards in some other locality of which I beg to inform you hereby in order to save you the trouble and expense of coming to the garden for the purpose of removing them.

I remain

Dear Sir

your obedient

Ferd. Mueller.

 

W. Hyndman Esq

 

If even the cattle could only be removed [...]2 that portion of the Reserve South of [...] Railway the object in view might be [partly] attained3

1
MS written by Ernst Heyne and signed by M. See also E. FitzGibbon to M, 4 March 1868.
2
Illegible.
3
MS annotation by W. Hyndman: 'I got this a few days ago from Dr Mueller | W. Hyndman'. There is a furher annotation by [Hyndman]: 'What are Treeguards for if not for a protection against people and cattle W.H.'.

Please cite as “FVM-68-01-31,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/68-01-31