Studies in Australian Garden History – Vol 2

Description

Edited: Max Bourke AM and Colleen Morris

Contents

Foreword

Weeds in the Victorian Colonial Garden 1800-1860  John Dwyer

Contested Spaces:  Gardening Campaigns of the Christchurch Home Front, 1942-1945  Matt Morris

Sublimity and Amenity at Lindt’s Hermitage   Deborah van der Plaat & Catherine De Lorenzo

Muck, Bugs and Decay:  the preoccupations of early Australian Organic gardening  Rebecca Jones & Janice Chesters

The Foundations of Adelaide’s Gardenesque Parks and Gardens:  the role of August Wilhelm Pelzer  David Jones

‘… hurry up them Pines’  Gardens in Nineteenth-Century Australian Fiction   Susan K Martin

The Wars of the Roses:  the National Rose Gardens and the Gardens of Old Parliament House, Canberra   Dianne Firth

Published September 2006