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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Léon Dejardin   18 Oct 1894

18/10/94.

Chevalier Dejardin,

Consul General for France.

Herewith, dear Consul Dejardin, I beg to send you for the Tunis-Regency seeds of ten kinds of rare Eucalyptus, freshly collected, enough to raise many thousand trees. The species, now sent, will likely be new to Tunis. I have added good germinable seeds of three species of Bamboos. Other seeds will follow as gradually they will mature in the different parts of Australia. Additional supplies of Atriplex Salt-Bushes-seeds can be furnished, should the Tunis-Regency find, that the quantity, kindly forwarded by you some weeks ago, is not sufficient for the camel-, sheep- and goat-pastures there.

Reverently your

Ferd. von Mueller.

It was Mons. Paul Bourde who asked for seeds in Tunis1

Atriplex

Eucalyptus

1

Letter not found. Bourde was Director of Agriculture forTunisia; the Jardin d’essai in Tunis had been founded on his initiative.

2

For a printed version of this letter, see Home & Maroske (1997), p. 40. MS annotation by [Dejardin]: 'rép. 26' [replied 26]. Letter not found.

Please cite as “FVM-94-10-18,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-10-18