From Walter Bissill   29 December 1879

Belvoir Park

Ravenswood1

Dec. 29th/79

My dear Baron

I thank you very much for your solicitude about me: I have all the aid I can get I highly appreciate your gratifying sentiments of friendship

What I call E. Behriana is very common2 over the Nn.3 parts of the Colony I send seeds & buds for identification. It flowers after March & so densely, the trees are conspicuous for miles I fear a chance flower cannot be found now I will try to send all you want in a day or two The trees attain to about 70 or 80 feet here and there: such trees being 3 to 4 feet in diameter The old trees become mere shells full of Oppossums

I scarcely read at all but like to know what is going on & welcome your generos offer of spare copies A few sheets or a damaged number or anything to give me a idea of your Due Euc. Atlas4 would be very acceptable.

Please give me the name of the Dictyogenous (?) creeper I sent last time The yellow flowers sprang from the centre of a rose coloured hip I have not seen it fresh & cannot use my hands

I am dear Baron

Yours truly

Walter K. Bissill

 

P. S. my Parents & wife heartily wish you the compliments of the season5

 

Eucalyptus Behriana

1
Vic.
2
M underlined common in pencil and annotated it: '? FvM'.
3
Northern.
4
The 4th Decade of M’s Eucalyptographia (see B79.13.11) was published in late 1879 and Decades 5-7 in 1880 (B80.13.14).
5
MS annotation by M: 'Bougainvillea'.

Please cite as “FVM-79-12-29,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/79-12-29