Gardens of History and Imagination

About the editors:Gretchen Poiner is an honorary associate in anthropology at the University of Sydney. Sybil Jack is an honorary research associate in history at the University of Sydney.

• IllustrationsForewords by Brett Summerell; Richard Neville; Robert PrinceAcknowledgementsIntroduction by Gretchen Poiner1. Gardens, landscapes, wilderness: ways of seeing ourselves by Gaynor Macdonald2. A sense of place by Gretchen Poiner3. Garden elements: seeds, plants and their sources in colonial New South Wales by Sybil Jack4. Cultivated wellbeing: gardens and health in colonial New South Wales by Janet George5. Exhibiting gardening by Ailsa McPherson6. Riverine gardens of Sydney waterways by Stuart Read7. Garden suburbs for the people: the movement from late 19th-century New South Wales by John Ramsland8. Planting New South Wales: the role of the Sydney Botanic Garden by Colleen Morris9. Hollywood in Burwood: the transformation of a suburban backyard to a garden by Catherine Rogers10. The evolving meanings of Retford Park: from the Hordens to Fairfax, 1885 to the present by Sue RosenAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyAbout the contributorsIndex

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