Botanic Gardens Gallery

Lily Pond, Brisbane Botanical Gardens, 1901. Creator: Unknown

Lily Pond, Brisbane Botanical Gardens, 1901. Surveyed in 1828 by Colonial Botanist Charles Fraser, the gardens were originally planted in 1825 by convicts with food crops to feed the prison colony. From "Federated Australia". [The Werner Company, London, 1901]

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Scenes in St. Louis, 1874. Creator: Alfred Waud

Scenes in St. Louis, 1874. Hothouses and entrance to Shaw's Gardens, the Equitable Insurance Building on Locust Street, Old Court House on Fourth Street, the High School on Olive Street, the Waterworks, and the Grain Elevator on the River Mississippi, St Louis, Missouri, USA. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]

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Eighteenth Century Version of a Pagoda in Kew Gardens, c1935. Creator: Unknown

Eighteenth Century Version of a Pagoda in Kew Gardens, c1935. View of the Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens, Richmond, south-west London. The Chinese-inspired ten-storey octagonal pagoda is 163 ft (nearly 50 metres) high, and was completed in 1762 as a surprise for Princess Augusta, the Dowager Princess of Wales and mother of George III. It was designed by Sir William Chambers. From "Wonderful London, Volume 2", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]

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