A history of gardening in New Zealand / Bee Dawson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Godwit, 2010Description: 304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1869621565
- 9781869621568
- 635.0993 22
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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