[Sir, — I was pleased to see in Saturday's Mail a paragraph on "A Substitute for Potato," namely stachys tubifera. It may be interesting to the public of the district to know that we have a few plants in our local Gardens. Last summer Baron von Mueller, F.R.S., &c., &c., was so kind as to send us a few small tubers through the post, and I planted them at once in a kerosene tin, and when large enough I planted them in the open ground, where they have stood the winter's frost without any protection. We have about 10 plants in the little plot of ground at the Curator's house, trusting we will succeed in getting a few matured tubers for distribution.]
Stachys tubifera
M's letter not found. The text given here is from 'Correspondence', Mount Alexander mail, 11 August 1891, p. 3. The letter is dated to March 1891 as the latest it could have been written 'last summer'.
Please cite as “FVM-91-03-00f,” 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