["J. C. Fitz [R]udd.1"-Baron von Mueller identifies the plant growing on your land as the Vittadinia Australis, a native of this colony. It is perennial, and seeds freely; consequently to get rid of it the ground must be frequently turned over, and after well working and manuring a strong growing crop should be sown in order to smother the weed]
Vittadinia Australis
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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 24 February 1894. p. 317. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 16 February 1894 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-94-02-16,” 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