Melbourne bot. Garden
1/6/68.
Sir
I have the honor to express my best thanks to the City-Council for its goodness, in providing for the Garden bridge two lamps, also the necessary kerosene &c; due attention to the lightening will be given by my department.1
I venture now to solicit respectfully from the members of the Council:
1, permission to plant young trees along the slope of the approach of the City bridge, more particularly in the direction of Immigrants Home.
2, Permission to cut off the unsightly summit of the solitary tree standing in the swamp at the bridge, the cut to be effected at the point of the flood-mark.
3, to cause to be eradicated a few of the old stumps of trees near the same spot.
4, to oblige me kindly to provide two labourers for one month to effect plantations of basket willow and weeping willows on the municipal side of the Yarra-bank.
5, to allow a fall-gate2 to be made at the point, where the path diverges from the bridge railing along the Yarra-flat below the Immigrants Home building, the present entrance there permitting calves and goats to get into the grounds planted already and to be planted
6, to concede kindly permission to me to have all goats and fowl shot, which encroach on the Yarra flat between the River and Immigrants Home.
7, to have any cattle impounded which may invade the ground by malicious breakage of the fences or railings of the bridge.
I have the honor to be
Sir
your very obedient
Ferd. von Mueller.3
Please cite as “FVM-68-06-01a,” 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