21/4/69
It is my pleasing duty, dear Mr Guilfoyle, to acknowledge the receipt of a splendid assortment of plants, which you secured on the pacific Islands, and with the consent of your excellent father transmitted to my establishment. I feel also very much indebted for the consideration shown me in naming one of these fine plants in memory of myself.1
When you go in August to San Francisco I can gladly give you some introductions.
Have you no friends in the southern parts of N.S.W. willing to press the plants of their districts on an occasional walk into paper? One of the spotted Euphorbiaceous plants, presented by you to the Garden, is Codiaeum chrysostictum2 one of your Heliconias is a superb plant. I will be happy to help naming them, when they come into flower. I never had Geissois racemosa in cultivation. It must be very ornamental. There are several very fine species of Geissois in New Caledonia.
I shall send you by this days steamer three species of orchids from the philippine Island, lately received and not yet named, as I have not seen flowers. Altho' I raised very many kinds of Coniferae here, I never could get seeds of Pinus Lambertiana. (Cupressus Lambertiana of course I got in abundance to spare) Mesembr.3 cyrstalllnum is an annual.
Should you or your father come to Melbourne it will afford me much happiness to see you and place at your disposal whatever may be [...]4
Codiaeum chrysostictum
Coniferae
Cupressus Lambertiana
Geissois racemosa
Heliconia
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Pinus Lambertiana
Please cite as “FVM-69-04-21a,” 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