To Joseph Hooker   12 March 1868

Melbourne bot Garden

12/3/68.

In shipping to you, dear Dr Hooker, the remaining monopetal. plants for Bentham's work, I have ventured to enclose with the consignment a package of seeds of quick growing and hardy Australian trees, such as Casuarinae, Acaciae, Fabricia, Melaleuca, which a dear and venerable friend of mine, now on a visit to London, wishes to have sown at an estate of his nephew in the Shetland Islands. The object of the dissemination of these trees is to raise shelter-copses there against the furious occasional gales, and as such seeds have only been selected as will yield trees calculated to withstand a slight frost, we can hope that they may get naturalized there in the mild clime, which is so much warmer through the proximity of the Gulfstream.

Mr M'Craes adress is as follows

Andrew M'Crae Esq.

30 Oxford Road

Kilburn

West London.

I feel sure that you will extend to me again your friendly aid, as the object is so good. All I would ask is that you cause the seeds to be sent to the above adress

With most regardful

salutation your

Ferd. von Mueller

Acacia

Casuarinae

Fabricia

Melaleuca