The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney: A History 1816-1985This book is a copiously illustrated account of the Gardens development--the events and personalities involved in it and their implications for the city of Sydney, Australia. |
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acres advised Agriculture Alexander McLeay Allan Cunningham Anderson appointed April August Australian beautiful Bidwill Botanist Centennial Park Charles Fraser Charles Moore collection Colonial Botanist Colonial Secretary Committee convicts cultivation Darnell-Smith David Bedford December Director Earl Bathurst Edward Deas Thomson Edwin Cheel established eucalypts expedition Farm Cove February fences Flora flowers Gardens and Domain George Gipps Government Domain Government Garden Government House Governor ground herbarium Hooker horticultural Inner Domain J.H. Maiden James Kidd January John Journal July June King labour land later Leichhardt Letters to Estab London Lower Garden Ludwig Leichhardt Macquarie Macquarie's March Mitchell Library Moore's Mount Tomah Museum November NSW Leg Nursery October Office Outer Domain overseer Oxley Parramatta person Phillip Port Jackson Royal Botanic Gardens scientific September Society South Wales species specimens staff Superintendent Sydney's tion trees vegetables visitors walks William Macarthur Woolloomooloo