[Acacia Melanoxylon. — Baron von Mueller, of the Botanical Gardens, at Melbourne, in a recent letter to the Secretary of the Bay District Horticultural Society, recommends very highly the extensive cultivation of the Acacia melanoxylon, as affording the best of timber for furniture and manufacturing purposes.]
Acacia melanoxylon
Letter not found. The text given here is from the California horticulturist and floral magazine, vol. 2, December 1871, p. 30. In other notices in the journal the name of the Society is given as Bay Area Horticultural Society. The letter is dated to October as the latest likely date it could have been written for it to be reported in this issue of the journal.
Please cite as “FVM-71-10-00a,” 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