Botany & Gardening

Books

BENSON, Doug and HOWELL, Jocelyn. Taken for Granted, The Bushland of Sydney and its Suburbs. Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1990.

MORRISS, Colleen. Lost Gardens of Sydney. Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 2008.

GILBERT, Lionel A. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney: a history 1816-1985. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1986 [see: "The Governor's Demesne 1810-21, pp.17-39].

MAULDON, Verena. Shaping the Domain: the Macquarie Legacy at Parramatta Park. Parramatta: Parramatta Park Trust, 2010.

McMINN, W.G. Allan Cunningham: botanist and explorer. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1970.

Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens. (eds.) Ritchard Aitkien and Michael Looker. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002.

WILSON, Edwin. Discovering The Domain. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1986.

WILSON, Edwin. The Poetry of Place. Sydney: Royal Botanic Trust, 2004. [revised ed. of The Wishing Tree: a guide to memorial trees, statues, fountains etc. in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Domain, and Centennial Park, Sydney. Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1992].

Journal Articles

BELL, Susan Groag. "Women Create Gardens in Male Landscapes: A Revisionist Approach to Eighteenth-Century English Garden History." Feminist Studies, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 471-491.

CAMPBELL, J. F. "Historical Notes on Government House Domain, Sydney." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal Vol. 17 Pt. 2 (1931).

CASEY, Mary. "Remaking Britain: establishing British identity and power at Sydney Cove." Australasian Historical Archaeology Vol. 24 2006 pp.87-98.

ENDERSBY, Jim. "A Garden Enclosed: botanical barter in Sydney, 1818-39." British Journal for the History of Science 2000 33 (3): 313-334.

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