To Joseph Hooker   5 February 1881

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 unica 2

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

 
1
MS annotation: 'The plant is alive J.S.' See J. Hooker to M, 14 May 1881.
2
MS annotation: 'Seeds as a rule have germinated pretty well but nothing has yet flowered worth figuring. J. S[mith] [page crumbled]'.
3
See M to J. Hooker, 28 May 1879; M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 January 1881 (in this edition as 81-01-01a).

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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-02-05a