[In connection with a little experimental culture which I am carrying out on the lands of the West Australian Pastoral and Colonisation Company, near Kojonup, I have lately been favoured with samples of the following seeds from Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., etc., etc., the receipt of which I gratefully acknowledge through your paper,
viz.:—
Phaseolus Max, P. radiatus, Paurcus1 P. trilobus, all varieties of P. Mungo … 2
Dolichos lablab and D lablab purpurscens3 …
Dolichos biflorus (black and white varieties) and D. uniflorus …
Cajanus Indicus …
Ervum Lens …
Sorghum vulgare (Andropogn4 Sorghum), …
Euchlaena luxurians …
Andropogn Sorghum
Cajanus Indicus
Dolichos biflorus
Dolichos lablab
Dolichos lablab purpurscens
Dolichos uniflorus
Ervum Lens
Euchlaena luxurians
Paurcus
Phaseolus Max
Phaseolus Mungo
Phaseolus radiatus
Phaseolus trilobus
Portulacaria Grandiflora
Sorghum vulgare
Typesetters' misreading of P. aureus?
Irving then gives information taken from '"Select Plants for Industrial Culture and Naturalisation," by Baron Von Mueller, K.C.M.G., etc., etc., (Government Printing Office, Melbourne), a book which ought to be in every library for reference and a companion to everyone interested in proper development of the agricultural resources of Australia'. The ellipses in the following text indicate notes from the same source.
purpurascens?
Andropogon?
Not in IPNI; possibly confused with Portulaca grandiflora? B91.09.01, p. 380 contains information on Portulacaria afra, using the common name, spekboom, that Irving gives in his letter, and also contains the comment, repeated by Irving, that the plant is the principal food for elephants.
Irving concludes by commenting that the WA climate ought to be favourable to the growth of leguminous plants, and asks readers with experience of cultivating any of these crops to contact him.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Experiments in seeds', a letter to the Editor from R. J. Irving, West Australian (Perth), 19 September 1892.
Please cite as “FVM-92-09-00d,” 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