The utilitarian plants "suitable for these colonies" are mentioned in the bye-following volume,1 which probably will afford to his Worship the Mayor of Launceston all the information desired there.
Ferd. von Mueller.
7/2/89.
Presumably the most recent edition of M's Select plants (B88.12.01).
MS is a file note. On 1 February 1889 David Scott, Mayor of Launceston, Tas., wrote to the Chief Secretary, Melbourne, asking for a 'list of the Botanical Specimens in the Botanical Gardens Melbourne' for the use of Launceston's gardener. The Under Secretary, T. Wilson, referred the letter to M 'for report. I am not very clear as to what it is the writer is asking for.' Scott's request was also referred to W. Guilfoyle, Curator, Botanic Gardens Melbourne (N89/2159, unit 407, VPRS 3992/P, Public Record Office, Victoria). The present note is M's reply to Wilson.
Please cite as “FVM-89-02-07,” 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