20/5/89
Feel much indebted to you, dear Mr Turner, for your kind sending of the printed notes, lately issued by you on utilitarian plants.1 I shall be able, to quote some data from them for the 8th edition of the "Select plants" under your name2
Will you be also so kind, to give me notes on such tropical or subtropical plants, as come into fruiting so far south as about Sydney Thus, for instance, I do not even know, whether the Mango does merely live out of door at Sydney, or whether it actually comes there to bear perfect fruit. So I am also in the dark about the Banana even. If these and other kinds of plants do not come to perfection at your city, how far south do they bear in N.S.W.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Have you in your pond any Australian Nymphaeas fruiting? An Italian Professor3 has just written for ripe fruits of them.
Printed notes not identified. Turner was a regular lecturer to the Horticultural Society of NSW, with the texts of his lectures printed in the Australian town and country journal (Sydney) (for example F. Turner (1886), F. Turner (1888)), and it is possible that M received a collection of cuttings of such articles.
B91.09.01.
Not identified.
MS annotation: 'From Baron Von Mu[eller]'.
Please cite as “FVM-89-05-20,” 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