The use was mentioned in in 'Scientific gossip', Leader (Melbourne), 8 November 1890, p. 36, a report of the opening address by Sir Frederick Abel to the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Leeds.
The Leader article points out that 'the tree is already to be found in gardens in the colony, being sold by the principal nurserymen, but it requires a warm climate, and therefore succeeds better about Sydney and further north than it is likely to do in any part of Victoria'. It identifies the species as 'Lauras Camphora, afterwards changed to Camphora officinarum, and again to Cinnamomum Camphora, undoer which name it appears in Baron von Muelloi's Select Plants, though the previous name is retained by nurserymen'.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Horticultural notes', Leader (Melbourne), 10 October 1891. p. 14. An item in Ararat advertiser and chronicle for the Stawell and Wimmera districts, 18 September 1891, p. 2, mentions that M forwarded the seeds to the Secretary of Agriculture, and the letter that presumably accompanied them is dated to September as the latest likely date it was sent.
Please cite as “FVM-91-09-00q,” 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