Melbourne, bot Garden
9./12/69
I have the pleasure, dear Mr Barlee, to send you under the obliging care of the Commander of the "Jeannie Oswald" a case with growing plants, which all are likely acceptable to your colony.1 Let me hope, that in distributing them you will not allow them to be planted in waterless and unsheltered or barren localities. Such rare and valuable plants are worthy of close attention and should receive water regularly during dry weather. You could much oblige me by causing the case to be refilled with strong thick sods of heaths, as from such material I can obtain here very many fine pot-plants for my conservatories. When the occasion arises of returning the case perhaps you will indebt me by sending also a bag full of Zamia nuts, as such are always welcome for interchanges.
With best wishes always your
Ferd. von Mueller
Hon. F Barlee. & &c
| Virgilia Capensis (Everflowering south African tree) | 1 |
| Thea Chinensis. (Chinese tea) | 2 |
| Pittosporum, (4 kinds from New Zealand (Hedgebrushes) | 42 |
| Ficus macrophylla (fine avenue tree) | 1 |
| Cordyline, (New Zealand Palmlily) | 1 |
| Brachychiton acerifolium. (Magnificent Avenue-tree) | 1 |
| Tecoma radicans (Ornamental Climber) | 1 |
| Laurus Camphora, (Japan Camphor tree) | 1 |
| Quercus alba & Q. Castanea, (two American oaks) | 23 |
| Quercus Suber, (Cork Oak) | 1 |
| Pinus Pinea, (Italian Pine with edible kernals), | 2 |
| Pinus Smithiana & P. longifolia, (two splendid Himalaian Pines) | 2 |
| Boehmeria macrophylla, (an Indian fibre-plant. (hardy) | 1 |
| Juglans nigra and Carya tomentosa (two American Walnuts) | 2 |
| Macadamia ternifolia, (a splendid nut tree of Queensland) | 1 |
| Araucaria imbricata, (Chilian Pine) | 1 |
| Callitris Australis, (Tasmanian Sandarac Trees) | 2 |
| Podocarpus Totara, (splendid timber tree of N Zealand) | 1 |
| Cupressus macrocarpa (2) Cupressus Lawsoniana (2) (four Californian Cypresses) | 4 |
| Podocarpus ferruginea & Dacrydium cupressinum (2 important New Zealand Pines) | 24 |
| Eucalyptus Globulus 1 (Tasmanian Blue Gumtree) | 1 |
| Himalaian Cypress | 1 |
| Cedrus Deodar, similar to the Lebanon Cedar | 1 |
| Corynocarpus laevigatus fine Avenue tree from New Zealnd | 1 |
| Tecoma grandiflora, noble climbing plant | |
Grevillea robusta, gorgeous tree from Queensland wood used for casks |
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In all |
39 |
Araucaria imbricata
Boehmeria macrophylla
Brachychiton acerifolium
Callitris Australis
Carya tomentosa
Cedrus Deodar
Cordyline
Corynocarpus laevigatus
Cupressus Lawsoniana
Cupressus macrocarpa
Dacrydium cupressinum
Eucalyptus Globulus
Ficus macrophylla
Grevillea robusta
Juglans nigra
Laurus Camphora
Macadamia ternifolia
Pinus longifolia
Pinus Pinea
Pinus Smithiana
Pittosporum
Podocarpus Totara
Podocarpus ferruginea
Quercus alba
Quercus Castanea
Quercus Suber
Tecoma grandiflora
Tecoma radicans
Thea Chinensis
Virgilia Capensis
The plants were instead shipped by the schooner Yarra after the sudden death of the captain of Jeannie Oswald; see M to F. Barlee, 30 January 1870.
MS annotated: '3 dead'.
MS annotated: '1 dead'.
Dacrydium underlined and annotated: 'Dead'.
MS annotation by Barlee: [Go]odale know what to do with these plants - please bring this letter before me on my return to Perth | F.P.B. 30-1-70 | Chief Clerk'.
Please cite as “FVM-69-12-09,” 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