WCP2294

[1]

Melbourne

bot Garden

28/2/73

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 Mueller¹ [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 exchange for of seeds of [illeg.] Australian plants (such as the Callistemons &c seeds of Bambusaneae, Palms &c.

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