[L'Eucalyptus globulus est une autre des plantes dont l'acquisition ne pourrait être plus importante. J'ai demandé à M. le baron Mueller, et il a eu la bonté de me remettre une quantité de graines, que j'ai semées le 10 octobre dernier. Elles ont germé cinq jours après, je les ai fait planter définitivement au mois de juin de la présente année, et maintenant elles sont arrivées à une hauteur d'un peu plus de 4 mètres.]
[Eucalyptus globulus is another plant the acquisition of which could not be more important. I asked Baron Mueller,2 and he had the goodness to send me a quantity of seeds that I sowed on 10 October last. They sprouted five days later; I had them planted definitively in June of this year, and now they have reached a height of just over 4 metres.]
Eucalyptus globulus
Letter not found. The text given here is from Bulletin de la Société d'Acclimatation, series 2, vol. 10 (1873), p. 567. The extract is from a letter from Nieto read at the meeting of the French Acclimatisation Society held on 25 July 1873, outlining the work of the reorganized acclimatisation society in Cordoba, Mexico. To have been received by Nieto in time for the seeds to be planted in October, it is unlikely that the letter would have been sent later than August; the time is estimated from the news in early June 1872 that the mails from Mexico brought to Australia reports of the earthquake of late March 1872 (see, for example, Age (Melbourne), 3 June 1872, p. 3). It may have been dispatched much earlier, and the seeds held for planting.
Request not found.
Please cite as “FVM-72-08-00,” 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