Victoria Parade
Maryborough1
22/4/82
Just as I received your last note,2 Dear Baron, I had collected my first autumn orchids as you stated. No 1 which was out of bloom when I arrived here last August, although the leaf still remained and much resembles Glossodia majors leaf but deeper veins — No 2 has just appeared since our light rain a few days since
The drought here has parched the ground so much that all herbage is burned up & will be some time before we see all the autumn & winter orchids here —
yours very obedly
J N McKibbin
Baron Von Mueller KCMG M.D &c &c
Glossodia major
Please cite as “FVM-82-04-22a,” 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