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From Ferdinand von Mueller to James Dickinson   [Sep 1879]

[Sir.—Herewith you will receive three small packets of seed of three bamboos,1 kindly supplied to me by Baron Von Müller. They are a recent arrival from the Himalaya mountains, where they occur in dense thickets, growing upwards of eighty feet in height, …]2

1

It is probable that the three species implied are those listed under Arundinaria falcata, in B76.12.04, where M gives the common names 'Ringal or Ningala Bamboo'. It is not known whence M received the seed, but also in 1879 he sent seed of an unknown species to William Woolls in Sydney; see W. Woolls to M, 10 May 1879.

2

The item continues, offering readers the 'few packets' Dickinson has to spare, commenting on horticultural needs and uses of the plant, as well as referring readers to B76.12.04.

3

M's letter not found. The text given here is from 'Hardy bamboos', a letter 'To the EDITOR', Geelong advertiser, 17 September 1879, p. 3. The item is dated to September on the assumption that Dickinson would have written to the newspaper soon after receiving the package from M.

Please cite as “FVM-79-09-00h,” 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/79-09-00h