Melbourne botan Garden
7/6/70
Sir
I have the honor to inform you, that I have delivered to your agent this day:
150 Italian Stone Pines and 150 Blue Gum trees, which, if planted alternately at 16 feet apart, will be found sufficient, to line both sides of the circular walk in the recreation-reserve of Stawell-township. In consulting your sketch of the ground, I thought it advisable to select the following trees in addition to be planted close to the fencelines.
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7 |
Cupressus Lawsoniana | |
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7 |
Araucaria Cunninghamii | ||
| to be planted alternately on the line of 205 feet, | |||
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15 |
Cupressus macrocarpa | |
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15 |
White mulburytrees | ||
| to be planted on the line of 480' | |||
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16 |
Manna Ashes | |
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16 |
Cupressus Lindleyana1 | ||
| to be planted at the line of 396 feet, alternately | |||
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28 |
Carakas2 | |
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28 |
Haleppo Pines | ||
| to be planted alternately at the line of 660 feet | |||
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8 |
Flametrees | |
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8 |
Chinese firs | ||
| to be planted on the line of 268 feet |
Should your ground not be prepared for all these young trees (about 450) or should the Council not wish to plant the Blue Gum-plants, then please hand them at once out to any other of your local institutions in my name, in order that this public property may not be lost.3
I am, Sir, your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller M.D.
Director of the bot Garden
Martin Doyle Esq &c &c
townclerk of Stawell
Araucaria Cunninghamii
Cupressus Lawsoniana
Cupressus Lindleyana
Cupressus macrocarpa
Cupressus lindleyi? M's spelling is used in some texts, for example in A. Jackson (1915) where he notes that a Cupressus lusitanica var benthamii growing near Exeter 'was long known as Cupressus Lindleyana'; see also Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol. 3 (1863), p. 164, reporting that Messrs Henderson & Son exhibited Cupressus lindleyana alba.
Karakas?
See also M to M. Doyle, 25 May 1870 (in this edition as 70-05-25b). On 8 June 1870, the agents appointed by Doyle informed him that, in compliance with his instructions of 30 May, they had 'despatched two Cases plants from Dr Mueller....' (File no. 11, no. 8, Stawell Historical Society, Stawell, Victoria).
Please cite as “FVM-70-06-07a,” 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