PEEK INTO THE EXHIBITION VIA THIS SELECTION FROM THE CURATOR RICHARD AITKEN. The ephemeral items reproduced below are from a private collection and reproduced with the permission of the collector. #plantingdream
For those of you who can’t make it to the exhibition, the the book available from the State Library of New South Wales and also at independent bookshops in Melbourne. Its available at Readings and The Avenue and Dymocks (so everywhere).
The exhibition looks at the gardens of our childhoods with the constantly sweeping sprinklers.
![The Goodyear Gardening Guide, The Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. (Australia) Limited, [Sydney, 1933]](https://ephemerasociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Goodyear-1933.jpg)
![Surfers Paradise: a visual guide to “The Golden Mile” ... coloured map & directory, J.C. Thomas, Surfers Paradise, Qld, [1955]](https://ephemerasociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Surfers-paradise-1955-600x385.jpg)
According to the Society’s website: Mr. Fuaux of Hawthorn was in constant correspondence with many Australian and overseas professors, botanists and scientists, so the members were kept up to date with all the latest discoveries and scientific knowledge to help them grow their plants better and enjoy their hobby more.
The heat has remained an ever present aspect of the garden, and Richard looks at garden accessories that go beyond the garden shed.
Best solution for those of us who like to read about gardens rather than make them – enjoy the landscaping of the sports’ clubs. This recent real estate brochure promises old Point Lonsdale to 2015 buyers.
![A Chip off the Old Block: Lonsdale Links Point Lonsdale, advertising brochure, Fletchers & R.T. Edgar, [Point Lonsdale, Vic., 2005]](https://ephemerasociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Lonsdale-golf-course-2005-600x286.jpg)
![‘Church of England, Berwick. / flower show / Rechabite Hall, Berwick / October 21st, 1909. / first prize. / Awarded to Miss F. Carrington / For Wild Flowers / Miss Barker Hon. Sec.’, Berwick News Print, [Berwick, Vic., 1909]](https://ephemerasociety.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6.17-1909wildflowercertificate-provisional-1-600x440.jpg)
Brett Anderson says
Hello,
I am with the Cactus and Succulent Society of Australia, celebrating 90 yrs this year. I am researching the history of the Society, and interesting characters such as Lex Fuaux. Looking to get in touch with the writer of your story, collector of the Spine, to see if you may have any additional information. I am also keen to get a copy or access to the nursery catalogues of T.H Dawson and J. Gill of White Hills Bendigo, and others.
Thank you for your consideration.
mbede says
Brett here is some information from member Richard Aitken, well known garden historian
I’m afraid I don’t have catalogues for any of these firms. I wrote a short history of Dawson and Gill for the National Trust classification report in the 1990s but I don’t have the file in a digital form I can read any longer! Am attaching the file in case you can convert. Brett could access a hard copy via the National Trust. I would have only used publicly accessible sources. There will be entries in the Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, available at a good library. Actually, i wrote an article on Dawson’s ‘We grow the rare ones’ for National Trust Magazine in 1990s as well, but don’t have a copy easily accessible. Here is citation for NT article
‘”We grow the rare ones”: Dawson’s Cactus Garden, Bendigo’, Trust News, 22 (3), December 1993, pp.1, 17.