Celebrating South Australia

https://discoversouthaustraliashistory.org.au/documents/author/payne/picturesque-scientific-gardening-developing-adelai.shtml

‘Picturesque Scientific Gardening’: developing Adelaide Botanic Garden 1865-1891

This essay was first published in Brian Dickey (ed), William Shakespeare’s Adelaide 1860-1930, Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians, 1992, pp.126-146, and is reprinted here with minor changes.

‘Picturesque Scientific Gardening’: developing Adelaide Botanic Garden 1865-1891 (138 KB)

 The original volume aimed to examine a variety of aspects of the life of the City of Adelaide during the years when William Shakespeare was an inspector on the staff of the City Corporation.