The Acclimatisation Society Gardens

Authors

  • Catherine Brouwer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1321816600003299

Keywords:

'The Acclimatisation Society Gardens', Bowen Park, Exhibition Building gardens, Brisbane cultural history

Abstract

The Acclimatisation Society Gardens are lost but there are surviving fragments in the present day Bowen Park and the old Exhibition Building gardens. There are some photos and Society records which survive in archives, but there are many tantalising, yet missing parts to the story. This paper attempts to reconstruct the story of an important aspect of early Brisbane's cultural history.

Author Biography

  • Catherine Brouwer

    Catherine Brouwer is a landscape architect and has a great interest in historic gardens. She contributed the section on gardens to the Queensland Museum's 1994 publication The Queensland House: A Roof Over Our Heads, and wrote two brochures (for the National Trust of Queensland and Townsville City Council) on caring for or restoring old gardens. She is a member of the Queensland Heritage Council and in 2002 received a merit award from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (Queensland Branch).

References

Acclimatisation Society Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.

Pearn, John, ‘Chronicles of Coochiemudlo’. The Royal Historical Society of Queensland, (Brisbane: Amphion Press 1953): 5.

Acclimatisation Society Archive, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM66 24/1- 9 1869.

Queensland Acclimatisation Society Minute Book, Acclimatisation Society Archive, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM66 – 24 / 1.

Bailey, F. M., Catalogue of Plants in the Two Metropolitan Gardens, The Brisbane Botanic Garden and Bowen Park – The Garden of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, Beal, James C., Government Printer, Brisbane, 1885.

Queensland Acclimatisation Society Minute Book 1865, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM66 – 24/3.

Minutes of March Meeting, op cit.

The statues were donated by a Mr Oppenheimer of Manchester. Brisbane Courier 12 Apl. 1879. Personal communication from Judith Deppeler-Hagen, 15 May 2003.

Vidgen, J. G., Report 21 May 1870, in Acclimatisation Society Archive, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

Queensland Acclimatisation Society, Annual Report 1883, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM66 – 24/4.

Caulfield, Harold, Courier-Mail, Brisbane, 25th Mar. 1982.

John Oxley Library Photographic Collection, State Library of Queensland, neg. 145950, neg. 110459).

Brisbane Courier, 8 May 1888 in ‘Cutting Book of Qld Acclimatisation Society’, Watkins Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.

Brisbane Courier, letter to editor Apl. 1889 in ‘Cutting Book of Qld Acclimatisation Society’, Watkins Collection, Fryer Library, University of Queensland.

Queensland Acclimatisation Society Annual Report for 1924, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, OM66 – 24/8.

Personal communication from Judith Deppeler-Hagen, 20th Sept. 1996.

Moore, Henry, Brisbane City Council Annual Report, 1913, Brisbane City Council: 149.

Op cit.

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Published

2003-11-01

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2003): Special Issue: Tropical Pleasures: A Focus on Queensland Gardens

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Brouwer, C. (2003). The Acclimatisation Society Gardens. Queensland Review, 10(2), 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1321816600003299