Melbourne bot Garden
29/5/69.
Sir
In reply to your letter, received this day,1 I beg to inform you, that I will be ready to supply such plants as are still available here for the bot Garden of Warrnambool, altho' the supplies were distributed since the first of this month and are now in most instances exhausted. Be so good to appoint an agent in Melbourne to receive the plants, to provide for packing & transit, and please furnish him with a rough sketch of the ground, indicting what space has been actually prepared for the plants. I suppose the garden is goatprove and that water is available in the summer.
Very obediently
Ferd von Mueller2
H. Read to M, 26 May 1869.
M's letter was read at a Council meeting held on 8 June 1869. Read was directed to write to T. Denney instructing him to receive the plants and forward them to Warrnambool (Minute book 7, p .52; Warrnambool examiner, 11 June 1869, p. 2).
See also H. Read to M, 9 June 1869.
For a summary of this letter, see Warrnambool examiner, 11 June 1869, p. 2.
Please cite as “FVM-69-05-29,” 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