[GRASS.— Farmer, Upper Yarra.— This grass would be a recommendable one, Baron von Mueller states, if it was not ergotised. For this reason it should not be encouraged in the particular locality for any extensive growth at the present time, unless under special precautions.]
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Farm. Answers to correspondents', Leader (Melbourne), 10 February 1894, p. 5. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 2 February 1894 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-94-02-02a,” 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