To William Thiselton-Dyer   21 September 1896

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By this weeks mail, dear Dr Dyer, I send 3 cuttings of the extraordinary rare Correa Bäuerleni, which as yet is only known from the solitary locality at which this remarkable plant was discovered. You brought it through Professor Oliver already picturally under notice in the "Icones plantarum".2 We find it here as easy to strike from cuttings as C. speciosa. Culture may also in this produce a red-flowering vari[eity]3 as we know exceptionally C. Lawrenciana to produce flowers as red as a Cardinals Mantle. If this mode of sending cuttings stuck into a potato proves successful even from the antipodes it would be worth mentioning in the Kew Bulletin.

With best greeting

your Ferd von Mueller4

 

Correa Bäuerleni

Correa speciosa

Correa Lawrenciana

 
1
The date is partly obscured by ink blots. Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 26. OCT. 96.; annotated in red pencil by [?W. Thiselton-Dyer]:Not yet ack / 20-XI-96.
2
Oliver (1891-5), vol. 23, t. 2245.
3
The end of the word is wrapped and cramped into the edge of the sheet.
4
The whole of the text to the left of the central margin on the front of the folio (from stuck to Mueller) and the date and second line to the right of the margin, is smeared with ink in horizontal lines. The back of the folio is blotted here and there with smaller spots of ink.

Please cite as “FVM-96-09-21b,” 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 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/96-09-21b