From Ferdinand von Mueller to James Casey   22 May 1873

MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDEN.

APPLICATION FOR SUPPLY.

Rev. J. F. Fitzgerald

of Mortlake

requests that he may be supplied with the following trees & shrubs

from the Melbourne Botanic Garden for the Roman Catholic Church

Terang1

LIST.

Space for about 100 plants

X 100 miscell. plants

Recommended for approval,2 to the Honorable the Minister 5/5/73

9/3 1873. Signature of Applicant J. F. Fitzgerald

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The items marked (X) can be supplied.

Melbourne Botanic Garden, Ferd. von Mueller Director. 3

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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.

Mortlake deleted; both Vic.

as far as available, deleted and initialed by M.

See also M to J. Casey, 22 May 1873 (in this edition as 73-05-22f).

Form completed in M’s office on Fitzgerald’s behalf and signed by him. The form has not been dated beside M's signature as other, similar forms have been, but the item is dated here to 22 May 1873 like all the others.

Please cite as “FVM-73-05-22u,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/73-05-22u