28/9/95
Since I last wrote to you, dear Sir William, I received the enclosed letter from Mr Edgar, the Director of the bot. Garden of Rockhampton.1 I advised him, to send the Vanilla-plants at once,2 as the wet season will have set in by the time, in which they can arrive in New Guinea. I presume you have a good practical Gardener there, to initiate these new cultures. you can easily raise from seeds, and these I could procure. But the Cinchonas, as you will see in my work on Select Plants for industrial culture,3 should be raised in the least hot upper regions of the mountains. A copy of this work I sent you some four years ago.
Very regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Cinchona
Please cite as “FVM-95-09-28a,” 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