WCP2294

[1]

Melbourne

bot[anic] Garden¹

28/2/[18]73

It affords me very much pleasure, dear Mr Wallace, to send you such seeds of comparatively hardy plants as I have just at hand. I would advise you to have a portion of each sown in the Channel Islands and elsewhere, so that the chances of your not only raising, but also establishing such plants may be augmented.

[2] If you can in your rambles secure[?] for me many well ripened[?] seeds of ^English forest flowers and water[?] plants for naturalisation of such plants in Australia, I should feel very much indebted.

Will you allow me to send my poor photograph and ask ^for yours to be placed[?] in my album of pictures of celebrated scientific[?] travellers.

Regardfully[?] [Ferd[?] von Muller [signature]

The seeds[?] go to the care of Dr Hooker.²

[3] I may be able to send you soon some seeds of Australian alpine plants [.]

Would you oblige me, if by giving me the addresses of any friends of yours in tropical America, willing to send me in exchangefor of seeds of [1 word illeg.] Australian plants (such as the Callistemons &c[?] seeds of Bambusaneae [sic?], Palms &c.

Have any special publications on New Guinea³ recently appeared? If so, pray put these [2 words illeg.] in the way to send them to me.