MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDEN.
APPLICATION FOR SUPPLY.
Mr. P. W. Tait
of Camperdown
requests that he may be supplied with the following plants
from the Melbourne Botanic Garden for Cricket Reserve at Camperdown
LIST.
X some trees & shrubs
Submitted for approval to the Hon the Minister of Lands.
F.v.M
187 . Signature of Applicant
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The items marked (X) can be supplied.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, 187 .1 Ferd. von Mueller Director.
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Received from the Gardens the above items, as marked approved.
187 .
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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.
Completed form is in a file of other applications dated 22 May 1873.
P. W. Tait, Honorary Secretary of the Camperdown Cricket Club, wrote to A. R. Wallis, Secretary for Agriculture, on 9 May 1873: 'I am instructed by the Committee of the Camperdown Cricket Club, to apply to the Minister of Agriculture, for a supply of trees and shrubs from the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, for the purpose of planting in the Cricket Reserve at Camperdown' (I73/9272, unit 750, VPRS 44/P, Public Record Office, Victoria). M was required to resubmit all such requests on the new form that had been devised for this purpose.
Please cite as “FVM-73-05-22d,” 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