To William Thiselton-Dyer   24 July 1889

24/7/891

 

Am glad, dear Mr Dyer, that the Gymnschoenus experiment looks hopeful.2 Will send in a few months a root of Restio tetraphyllus packed in moist moss. I believe, that it will keep alive thus in a close case, but have vainly tried the sendind3 in Ward's cases.

The success of Restio tetraphyllus being cultivated is to irrigate it constantly but gently like a Todea.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Restio teteraphyllus grows naturally at or in springs.

Have sent off by this mail steamer the Box which contains the Baskets from the wood of Acac. dealbata.4 With them specimens of utilitarian plants and of Cycas, just received from New Guinea (Sir W. Macgregor), also carpologic specimens of Banksia ornata and Eucal macrophylla,5 which may serve interchanges.6

 

Acacia dealbata

Banksia ornata

Cycas

Eucalyptus macrophylla

Gymnschoenus

Restio tetraphyllus

Todea

1
Date stamped : Royal Gardens Kew 31. Aug. 89.
2
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 10 October 1888 and 18 April 1889.
3
sending?
4
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 30 June 1889 (in this edition as 89-06-30a).
5
Eucalyptus macrocarpa interlined in red ink above Eucal macrophylla.
6
Annotated in red ink by Thiselton- Dyer: And 22. 9 89 ( letter not found ).

Please cite as “FVM-89-07-24,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/89-07-24