MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDEN.
APPLICATION FOR SUPPLY.
Mr. A. Davies
of Warrnambool1
requests that he may be supplied with the following plants
from the Melbourne Botanic Garden for Hospital grounds, Warrnambool
LIST.
X 25 species of shrubs and trees mentioned, partly others more suitable to be substituted, and numbers of each to be provided according to area prepared and supply fairly available for one single institution
Submitted for approval of the hon. the Minister of the Lands Department
F.v.M.
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Signature of Applicant
The items marked (X) can be supplied.
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Melbourne Botanic Garden, 22 May 1873. Ferd. von Mueller Director.
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Received from the Gardens the above items, as marked approved.
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Notice. — No plants, cuttings, or seeds will be issued from these Gardens unless in exchange, or for public institutions or benevolent purposes.
Vic.
On 13 May 1873, the Secretary of the Warrnambool Hospital, A. Davies, wrote to the Secretary of Agriculture, A. R. Wallis: 'I do myself the honor by direction of the Committee to request a donation from the Botanical Gardens of suitable trees and shrubs for the ornamentation of the Hospital Grounds — Mr Scoborio who will present this letter will take charge of such trees and shrubs as you may be able to spare for the purpose and being a practical gardener is aware what kinds are most likely to thrive, the grounds being exposed to the Southern Ocean'.
The file was annotated by Wallis: 'The Govt Botanist will be good enough to state which of the items contained in lists appended to within applications (2) can be supplied A. R. Wallis 17.5.73.'
The second application to which Wallis referred appears to have been a 'Catalogue of Shrubs & Trees for the Benevolent Asylum' that is now in the same file, as follows, that concluded, 'any of the above named with whatever else there is to dispose off':
Cupressus Lambertiana
" Lawsoniana
" Knighti [i.e. Knightii]
Pinus Austrica [i.e. Austriaca]
" Halepensis
" Insignis
" Pinaster
" Pinea
Picea Nordmaniana [i.e. Nordmanniana]
Pinus Benthemiana [i.e. Benthamiana]
Euonimus [i.e. Euonymus] Japonicus
Ficus Macrophylla
" Australis
Corynocarpus lavigatus [i.e. laevigatus]
Fugosa [i.e. Fugosia] Patersoni
[...]phostemon Australis
Pothinia Serulata [i.e. Photinia serrulata]
Escallonia Macrantha
Pittesporum undulatum
" Eugenoidis [i.e. eugenioides]
" Nigrescens
Protea Mellifera
Benthemia fragefera [i.e. Benthamia fragifera]
Berberis Communis
" Nepalensis
Please cite as “FVM-73-05-22a,” 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