8/12/91
In my letter, written two days ago,1 dear Miss Hedley,2 I forgot to refer to the required "Bamboo-Cane". Now I send by parcel-post a root, just taken up, of the small hardy Chinese Bamboo, but perhaps your worthy father desires, to have the tall "Danubian Reed", Arundo Donax, which is much planted about Melbourne. If you have this not already, then I can send easily some roots in a corn-bag by rail; but as you live some distance from the station, I like first to know, whether it is this bamboo-like Reed, which Mr Hedley requires. Let me also kindly know, if, — should I send a telegram, when such roots are sent, — it would reach speedily enough to send at once (in this hot season) for the roots to the train.
With regardful remembrance
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Arundo Donax
Please cite as “FVM-91-12-08a,” 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