To Joseph Hooker   12 July 1885

12/7/851

 

Would there be any chance, dear Sir Joseph, to ascertain still, whether the big Eucalyptus tree, which stood so many years in the open air at Haddington,2 and which may be there still, does really belong to E. viminalis, as Prof. Balfour said. Perhaps it is your E. Gunnii.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

 
 

Perhaps of this Haddington-Eucalyptus a specimen may be procured in Balfour’s Herbarium; the tree may have succumbed in the cold winter, when Araucaria imbricata perished.3

 

Araucaria imbricata

Eucalyptus Gunnii

Eucalyptus viminalis

1

Annotated by J. Hooker [I B] Balfour asked | JH.

Neither Hooker’s letter to Balfour nor any reply from Balfour has been found either at Kew or at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

2
About 30 km east of Edinburgh, Scotland.
3
The winter of 1880-81 (See Gardener's monthly and horticulturist, vol 24, 1882, p. 125: ‘The destruction of trees on Lord Haddington’s estate … was so wholesale that the beauty of his place is entirely destroyed.’)

Please cite as “FVM-85-07-12,” 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/85-07-12