Herbs

Date: 1899

From: [Ephemera and horticulture sales catalogues issued by New Zealand plant nurseries, 1870-1899].

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-1899-01

Description: Includes lists for fruit trees, flower plants and seeds, herbs, roses. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 88 pages, 214 x 140 mm.

Date: 1981 - 1984 - 1986

By: Glen Avon Gardens (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-GlenAvon

Description: Lists alpine and rock plants, perennials, herbs, fuchsias, trees and shrubs, and climbers. Quantity: 4 catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets of approximately 30 pages, each page 213 x 165 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Arnold Books (Christchurch) in 2003.

Date: 1989 - 7 Apr 1998

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001; Bradley, Michelle, 1958-

Reference: OHColl-0463

Description: 1989 interview is difficult to hear. A sketch abstract of the interview and additional notes are bound in to the abstract. Avice Hill was born in Christchurch in 1906. Gives an account of her family history with an emphasis on the immigration of her maternal grandparents, the Crosbie family, in 1863. Avice Hill reads from notes about the Crosbie family's voyage to New Zealand on the ship `Brothers pride'. Discusses the daughters, Agnes and Jane, who were tailors and milliners and operated a successful business in Christchurch in the 1870s. Notes that Agnes Crosbie became Agnes Francis on her marriage but that her husband died and she continued to live with her sister Jane Crosbie. Describes their home on the corner of Armagh and Durham Streets and later on a large property in Withells Road. Discusses the purchase of a piece of land on Memorial Avenue which has been donated to the Christchurch City Council and is now the Avice Hill Reserve. Recalls growing up at Withells Road under the care of her aunties Agnes and Jane and travelling by trap and tram to attend St Margarets school in Cranmer Square. Discusses her passion for bug breeding as a child and later attending Canterbury College (university) to study science. Talks about getting her Master of Sciences degree and writing a thesis on the dobsonfly, an insect that lives in rivers. Describes working on insect pest eradication at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson in the 1930s. Recalls meeting distant relative Frank Hill again while visiting a mutual relative Maud McDowell. Describes their courtship, getting married, a trip to Great Britain and starting to grow and sell herbs at the Memorial Avenue property. Describes the growth of the business, involvement of Frank Hill and establishment of the house and herb gardens. Recalls the formation of the Canterbury Herb Society by Avice Hill, Peggy Fitts and one other person. Notes that the Withells Road land is now Crosbie Park. Talks in some detail about the Avice Hill Reserve. Accompanying material - Information on the Crosbie family; information on the property at Memorial Ave; information on the replanting of the enclosed herb garden as a scented garden; article `Bugs, lavenders and ginger cats' by Avice Hill, article `Queen of herbs' in NZ gardener Apr 1998. These are bound into the abstract. Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 7 Apr 1998

From: Interviews with Avice Hill

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001

Reference: OHInt-0463/02

Description: Quantity: 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1765. Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 1989

From: Interviews with Avice Hill

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001

Reference: OHInt-0463/01

Description: Quantity: 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Brief summary and notes are bound in with abstract of second interview. Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 1951

By: Isdale, Alistair Murray, 1911-2001

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Isdale-1951-01

Description: Alphabetical list of herb plants for sale. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 90 typescript pages, 170 x 208 mm.

Date: 1978 - 1982

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the activities and exhibitions of horticultural societies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORT-SOC-Canterbury-1970/1989

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying up to 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1950

By: Isdale, Alistair Murray, 1911-2001

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Isdale-1950-01

Description: Alphabetical list of herb plants for sale. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 80 typescript pages, 165 x 205 mm.

Date: [ca 1974]

By: Rodda, Thomas Edward, 1881-1975?

Reference: MS-Papers-9980

Description: Rodda describes his life including background from his birth and arrival in NZ in 1884, his life on his family's farm, near Rangiriri, now Te Kauwhata, the Maori in the district, including their use of flour sacks for clothing, mosquitoes, school days, his first employment on Waerenga Experimental Farm, his experiences with early, and later, grape and fruitgrowing. In March 1905 he began work on road and rail construction at Oio and he describes work conditions and the work in some detail, until he returned to Waerenga inAug 1905. He describes his various positions within the department, often as an inspector. He joined the Legion of Frontiersmen in 1913 and the Hamilton Company of the National Military Reserve in 1939. He describes duties as a justice of the peace, his experiences during the depression and his appointment as farm manager and college superintendent at Ruakura Farm of Instruction in 1932, and breeding of pedigree milking cattle. He concludes with a descriptiion of his life after retirement. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (26 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Auckland Historical Society, Auckland, per Ms Winifred Macdonald, editor, Jul 1976

Date: 1949

By: Isdale, Alistair Murray, 1911-2001

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Isdale-1949-01

Description: Alphabetical list of herb plants for sale. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 74 typescript pages, 167 x 212 mm. Provenance: Donated from the estate of Margaret Barker, 2013.

Date: 1980

By: New Zealand gardener (Periodical)

Reference: Eph-C-BOTANY-1980-01

Description: Chart shows line illustrations of twelve harb plants, with brief descriptive notes, growth habits, growing guidelines and uses. Herbs included are: angelica, basil, comfrey, dill, garlic, lemon balm, sweet marjoram, rosemary, sage, summer savory, French tarragon and caraway. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 467 x 345 mm.

Date: 1995

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the activities and exhibitions of horticultural societies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORT-SOC-Herb-1995-01

Description: List of books held in the Herb Federation's library curated by Mrs D A Genge in West Plains, Invercargill. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, 210 x 147 mm. Provenance: Acquired through the Legal Deposit office, ca 1995.

Date: 1977-1978

From: Rowland, Lorna Waring, 1908-1988: Papers and photographs

Reference: Series-6434

Description: Includes Wellington Herb Society records, papers about using and growing herbs, some written by Lorna Rowland, transparencies of herbs intended for Rowland's book on herbs, and photographs and transparencies about the Herb Garden in the Wellington Botanic Gardens. Bibliography: Rowland, Lorna. 'Growing Herbs', Reed, 1979, Wellington NZ. Title supplied by Library. Lorna Rowland taught Workers Education Association classes about growing and using herbs, wrote a book about growing herbs, and was instrumental in the establishment of the herb garden in the Wellington Botanical Gardens. Quantity: 71 colour original transparency/ies. 8 colour original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 box(es). Physical Description: Photographic prints and transparencies, typescript and manuscript papers,

Date: [ca 1980s-1995]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: fMS-Papers-12578-16

Description: Scrapbook containing clippings pertaining to gardening (particularly herbs). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: ‘Thumper School Scrap Book’ with cover illustration of a rabbit, mice, and frogs playing music instruments, 37 x 25 cm.

Date: [ca 1980s-2000]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: fMS-Papers-12578-15

Description: Scrapbook containing clippings pertaining to gardening (particularly herbs). Also included are recipes, and correspondence. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: ‘Jumbo Scrapbook’ with cover illustration of an elephant using a scrapbook, 32.5 x 24.5 cm.

Date: 1977

By: General Printing Services Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-FOOD-1977-01

Description: A listing flavours of herbs; and a listing of foods with suggestions as to which herbs are good accompaniments for them. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on light card 307 x 428 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: Eph-C-FOOD-1970s-05

Description: A folded card listing flavours tasted in a selection of herbs; and a listing of foods with suggestions as to which herbs are good accompaniments for them. The front page shows an illustration of a bunch of several herbs. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on card folded to 315 x 214 mm.

Date: 1963-2001

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-014

Description: Photographs relating to horticulture, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1963 and 2001. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: [1985-1994]

From: Organic Food Co-op: Records

Reference: 97-246-3/03

Description: Comprises brochures, price lists and information sheets Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960 - 1961

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Native wild flowers, berries and weeds. 1960-1961.

Reference: E-164-q-149

Description: Several weeds in flower Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 246 x 310 mm