Newry
North Gippsland1
May 23d /84
Dr Mueller
Sir
The enclosed small branches and leaves are from some very shady and ornamental gum trees near Sale. These trees though like the Red Gum in colour of bark and general appearance are unlike them in being much more shady, and having a brighter green foliage. The tree does not grow more than half as high as the common Red Gum; in the majority of specimens the but2 seperates into large spreading limbs nine or ten feet from the ground, and with its bright green spreading, & thick foliage it certainly forms the most shady & pleasing Eucalyptus that I know of except perhaps the Red Gum of Western Australia on the road from Albany to Perth.
As many people would be glad to cultivate this tree I have ventured to send you the enclosed in the hope that you may be able to oblige us by telling us the name as we can then perhaps procure plants, or see more about it in your work on the Eucalypts3 which we have here
I remain, Sir,
Yours respectfully,
A. Liddelow.
Please cite as “FVM-84-05-23,” 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