MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDEN.
APPLICATION FOR SUPPLY.
Mr J. Bedford
of Brunswick
requests that he may be supplied with the following plants
from the Melbourne Botanic Garden for Wesleyan Church Reserve
LIST
X a few 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, 22 May 1873. 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.
John Bedford, Church Steward, Brunswick wrote to the Minister of Agriculture, J. J. Casey, on 3 May 1873: 'I have the honor on behalf of the Trustees of the Wesleyan Church property at Brunswick to request you to make us a gift of a few suitable shrubs for planting in the grounds of our new church' (I73/9273, 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-73-05-22e,” 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