To Joseph Hooker1    16 June 1869

16/6/69

 

I am much obliged, dear Dr Hooker, for the despatch of the Sarracenias & Nepenthes by the Swiftsure.2 I will hope for the best.

Should there be at any time in your houses any off-fall of succulents, Yuccas, Dasylirions, Scitamineae & such like things as will travel quite well in a close case, if air-dried, then pray cause your foreman to bundle such things off to me. We have but little of green house plants here after all, if I compare European Catalogues. Seeds of Begonias and such like grateful plants would be a real boon. You will not find me thankless for such gifts!

Always your regardful

Ferd von Mueller

 

Could not poisoned paper be made for the herbariums, to save the trouble of poisoning the plants? Exist any photograms of Kew Garden & Museum?3 If so could you spare me a set and I would return one from my poor place in reciprocity?

 

Begonia

Dasylirion

Nepenthes

Sarracenia

Scitaminiae

Yucca

 
1
MS annotation: 'J.S.’ (i.e. John Smith (1821-88)).
2
Swiftsure departed from London on 9 April 1869 and arrived in Melbourne on 28 June ( Argus , 29 June 1869, p. 4).
3
See J. Hooker to M, 10 September 1869.

Please cite as “FVM-69-06-16,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/69-06-16