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A history of gardening in New Zealand / Bee Dawson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Godwit, 2010Description: 304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1869621565
  • 9781869621568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 635.0993 22
Contents:
Land of the kumara - pre-European gardens -- Potatoes and guns - explorers and their legacy -- A new wave - sealers, whalers and missionaries -- Bees -- 'Sobriety, intelligence and industry' - the first settlers's gardens -- The importation of plants and seeds -- Acclimatisation societies and their legacy -- Conservatories and croquet - Victorian gardens -- Gardening clothes -- Blights and pests -- Into the twentieth century -- Weeds -- Tea and promenade gardens -- Botanic gardens and public parks -- Entering a new age - the 1920s and 1930s -- Digging for victory -- The postwar years -- Epilogue - the 1990s and beyond.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 635.0993 DAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A470978B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index.

Land of the kumara - pre-European gardens -- Potatoes and guns - explorers and their legacy -- A new wave - sealers, whalers and missionaries -- Bees -- 'Sobriety, intelligence and industry' - the first settlers's gardens -- The importation of plants and seeds -- Acclimatisation societies and their legacy -- Conservatories and croquet - Victorian gardens -- Gardening clothes -- Blights and pests -- Into the twentieth century -- Weeds -- Tea and promenade gardens -- Botanic gardens and public parks -- Entering a new age - the 1920s and 1930s -- Digging for victory -- The postwar years -- Epilogue - the 1990s and beyond.

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