MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDEN.
APPLICATION FOR SUPPLY.
Henry Meyler
of Winchelsea1
requests that he may be supplied with the following plants
from the Melbourne Botanic Garden for Presbyterian Church Winchelsea
LIST
trees &c.
X 75 miscell trees, includ Euc glob.2
Recommended for approval,3 to the Honorable the Minister 5/5/73
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 .
Notice. — No plants, cuttings, or seeds will be issued from these Gardens unless in exchange, or for public institutions or benevolent purposes
Eucalyptus globulus
Vic.
Eucalyptus globulus.
as far as available, deleted and initialled by M. M had submitted Meyler's application with M to J. Casey, 19 May 1873.
MS annotation by A. Wallis: 'Received 7.5.73. | A.R.W.'
The postscript of a letter survives in which Meyler states: 'I have been requested to ask Baron Von Mueller if he will have the kindness to supply at the same time and to the same agent, Mr John Hedrick, for the Trustees of the Winchelsea Presbyterian Church (of whom I am one) an assortment, including blue gums, of ornamental trees for the Church reserve of which three quarters of an acre will soon be prepared' (I73/9275, unit 750, VPRS 44/P, Public Record Office, Victoria).
Please cite as “FVM-73-05-22g,” 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