Gardeners, plant collectors, friends : Hobart Town and beyond
Title:
Gardeners, plant collectors, friends : Hobart Town and beyond / Ann Cripps.
Author/Creator:
Publication:
Hobart, TAS. : Fullers Publishing, 2022.
Copyright notice date:
©2022
Physical description:
xvi, 212 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Copy specific information:
Signed by the author. Item ID 146965967
Accession number:
1537
Notes:
Designed by Julie Hawkins ; edited by Sheelagh Wegman.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Robert Knopwood : chaplain and gardener -- Walter Nicol -- 2. Daniel Bunce : colonial nurseryman and plant collector -- The naming of plants -- 3. George Fordyce Story : doctor and botanist -- The potato -- James Backhouse : Quaker missionary and plant collector -- 5. James Dickinson : explorer and nurseryman --The Quakers -- 6. Frederick Mackie : Quaker plantsman -- 7. Backhouse and Walker: the second generation -- The Wardian case -- 8. Frederick, Henry and Edward Lipscombe : gardening brothers -- 9. Joseph Allport : collector and gardener -- The societies -- 10. William Davidson and Ronald Campbell Gunn : botanical gardeners -- Botanic Gardens -- 11. Ladies of influence -- 12. William Chandler : a gardening dynasty --Fellow immigrants and gardeners -- 13. James Murdoch, James Scott and James Ross : Scottish doctors and gardeners -- The bee -- 14. James Gordon and John Osborne : gardeners and nurserymen -- The gardener -- The pineapple -- 15. James Scott, Charles Creswell and John Latham : seedsmen and florists -- 16. The gardener's library -- The medicinal garden -- Biographies.
Summary:
"The first years of the Hobart Town colony were focused on survival, utilitarianism and self-sufficiency in a foreign, unforgiving landscape. But as gardens became more productive and both the settlers and their plants adapted to life in a distant land, the early gardeners and nurserymen began to develop these outdoor spaces as sources of leisure and delight. The horticultural growth of the settlement involved a worldwide network of amateurs and experts who came together to send European and exotic plants and seeds to the new colony; in return, rare endemic Tasmanian flora were catalogued, and specimens sent across the oceans to enhance botanical collections around the world... Ann Cripps has profiled and interwoven the stories of over 25 men and women of note who contributed to the horticultural history of Van Diemen's Land, delving into early books, letters, diaries and other rare manuscripts to bring them to life."--Back cover.
ISBN:
9780648124016
Subjects:
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1398685