5./2./81.
Will you be so kind, dear Sir Joseph, to send me a few lines, to say how the transmission of the Livistona australis succeeded. I have occasion to utilize a note to that effect, if the experiment succeeded.1
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Have your prop[a]gators been very fortunate with the very numerous kinds of seeds often of very rare & beautiful plants sent month after month for so many years. I fear not in your not sunny clime as hardly ever one appears in the bot. Magazine You had always the first lot of rare seeds and always the unica2
The seeds of the Panicum from W. Africa gave better crops, than I at first examination thought.3 It is not P. spectabile. Still I am much beholden to you for sending the seeds
Livistona australis
Panicum spectabile
MS annotation: 'The plant is alive J.S.' See J. Hooker to M, 14 May 1881.
MS annotation: 'Seeds as a rule have germinated pretty well but nothing has yet flowered worth figuring. J. S[mith] [page crumbled]'.
See M to J. Hooker, 28 May 1879; M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 January 1881 (in this edition as 81-01-01a).
MS annotation by Hooker: 'And'.
Please cite as “FVM-81-02-05a,” 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