Melbourne bot. Garden,
8/4/68.
Suddenly an apportunity has arisen, dear and honorable Sir, to send a case with plants direct to Perth.1 Thus I have despatched to you a number of prominently useful plants, all of which are likely to thrive about Swan-River. If there not already exist pines in some variety, you many find those now sent, eligible for the decoration of the ground of some of your public buildings. The plants should be taken out of the pots and planted at once during the genial autumnal weather and it will be needful to place around them rather densely a lot of branches of any kind, in order that the plants may be protected against winds and sudden changes of the temperature.2
With regardful salutation
your
Ferd. von Mueller
Plants for W.A.
1 Jatropha Manihot. Tapioca
1 coffee
1 Tea
1 Acmena floribunda
1 ______ Kingii
1 Cordyline Australis
1 _______ indivisa
1 phoenix Dactylifera Date
1 Panax arborea3
2 Areca Sapida
1 Myrtus Bullatus4
1 Aralia Crassifolia
2 Cupressus macrocarpus5
2 ________ Lawsoniana
1 ________ excelsa
1 ________ Knightiana
2 Pinus insignis
2 ____ picea
1 ____ excelsa
1 ____ pseudo Strobus
1 ____ laricio
1 ____ larix
1 Cedrus Deodara
1 Pinus ponderosa
1 Cryptomeria Japonica
2 Quercus Suber Cork-oak.
Acmena floribunda
Acmena Kingii
Aralia Crassifolia
Areca Sapida
Cedrus Deodara
Cordyline Australis
Cordyline indivisa
Cryptomeria Japonica
Cupressus excelsa
Cupressus Knightiana
Cupressus Lawsoniana
Cupressus macrocarpus
Jatropha Manihot
Myrtus Bullatus
Panax arborea
Phoenix Dactylifera
Pinus excelsa
Pinus insignis
Pinus laricio
Pinus larix
Pinus picea
Pinus ponderosa
Pinus pseudo Strobus
Quercus Suber
See M to F. Barlee, 22 May 1868 In this edition as 68-05-22a).
On [illegible date], Barlee minuted: 'Will the Collectors of Customs be good eno' to have the case herein attended to carefully landed and forwarded to Perth without delay? Please to return the letter.' An officer named Worsley Clifton replied on 4 May: 'No vessel appears to be named. If the case of Plants is on board the "H Nicholson" I will endeavour to get it up to Perth tomorrow & if in any other vessel that may arrive from Melbourne I will not fail to attend to this memo.' Barlee added the same day: 'Let a copy of this list be given to Murray the Gardener with a copy of the directions in Dr Müellers letter marked " " in pencil, and see that he keeps a look out for the case and at once attend to the directions.' 'R.P.' annotated the file on the next day: 'Done'.
P. arboreus?
M. bullata?
C. macrocarpa?
Please cite as “FVM-68-04-08a,” 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