March 28/70
Dear Mueller1
Thanks for yours of 6/11/69 & 4/12. Thozet asks me to send you Artemisia Dracunculus of which I am trying to get seed for you
I sent you a bag of Argania seeds, it should be a most valuable thing for your Colony in droughts especially.
More big Todeas will be most acceptable — it is growing famously.
I am most anxious to know how the Nepenthes and the Sarraceniae got out
I will see about sending Aconite roots next winter2 — it is too late this spring — ask again by next winter for what you most want & I will send them in damp moss overland.
I have sent Eriophorum, Sagittaria, Butomus &c in the cases already.3
With regard to your animadversion on the Cape for not sending big Todeas,4 — they do not grow big there — we have had their state of the plants for 30 years in growth.
I can send you Cork plants in a Wards case, a little later it is too cold yet for Wards cases.
Sincerely Yr
Jos D Hooker
Aconite
Argania
Artemisia Dracunculus
Butomus
Eriophorum
Sagittaria
Todea
Please cite as “FVM-70-03-28b,” 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 1 December 2023, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/70-03-28b