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Date: 1974 - 1993

By: Frank Mason & Son (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Mason

Description: Mail order catalogues listing roses and fuchsias for sale from this Feilding nurseryman. Includes lists (some of a single page, some a whole booklet) for the years: 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1993 Serials and monographs to be passed on to NZ&P and Serials. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mimeographed lists, stapled, sizes up to 340 mm.

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-005

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows a shingled roof, a long verandah with creeper growing over it, y planted garden, circular flower bed. The house is seen from the north (see plan on verso of A-306-004), with the skylighted chapel at left, and the bedrooms belonging to Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at the right. There is a hatted figure sitting in the window of Mr Philpott's room, and another figure on the verandah. This sketch is virtually identical to that at A-306-006, but the shading is slightly heavier. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [Title] According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouses from Easter to June 1860l, according to Shirley Tunnicliffe. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs A D Payne in 1997.

Date: 1961

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-112

Description: Shows garden paths edged with rocks and flower beds. Identifiable plants in the foreground include blue irises and a fuchsia. There is a tree growing in the background, possibly a kowhai. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1871

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

By: Allen, Thomas, active 1871; Mills, Dick & Company

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-1871-01

Description: A list of roses, dahlias, fuchsias, pelargoniums, and other miscellaneous flowers, for sale from this Dunedin nursery. The front cover says that the nurseries of Thomas Allen were at Cumberland, Frederick & Castle Streets, and the Forbury. Nurseryman signs himself Thomas Allan (cf Allen) inside. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, each 207 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Arnold Books (Christchurch) in 2003.

Date: [1970s]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-q-276

Description: Coloured photographs inserted under plastic; probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell. Most of the images show plants, many of them flowering, including natives such as cabbage trees, karaka berries, kowhai flowers, manuka, and kauri gum on a young kauri. Other plants include red currants, water lilies, wild chicory, lasiandra (or tibouchina), gourds, sedum, scarlet nerines, ginkgo trees, dogwood, fuchsias, passionfruit, wych elms and maple trees. One photograph shows the Penn family (Michael and Helen Peen, with their children James and Sally) taken at Hamilton in 1977; and several show Merta Alford (Harriet Mercy Alford), at her home in Cambridge, NZ. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, cream markings, entitled `PhotoAlbum'; 29.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1859 - 1863

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-006

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows a shingled roof, a long verandah with creeper growing over it, neatly planted garden, circular flower bed. The house is seen from the north (see plan on verso of A-306-004), with the skylighted chapel at left, and the bedrooms belonging to Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at the right. There is a hatted figure sitting in the window of Mr Philpott's room, and another figure on the verandah. This sketch is virtually identical to that at A-306-005, but the shading is slightly lighter. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 146 x 236 mm.

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-020

Description: Four views on one page. To the left, is a watercolour of large double fuchsia inscribed 'From Mr Saywell's Richmond'. Across the page at right-angles is a coastal profile of Auckland Harbour with the North Shore marked. Upper right, upside-down is a white flowered manuka (or kanuka) in a field. Lower right is 'Brown's beacon' a pencil drawing of a lighthouse Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1860

From: [Nicholson, Maria], fl 1859-62 :Episcopal [house] Nelson [from the south. 1860], with map on recto by Mary Hobhouse.

By: Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997; Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: A-306-003-2

Description: Shows plan of house from above, oriented with North at top. Chapel ("somewhat too large") is shown at right, "my room" in centre, bedrooms of Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at top left beside the verandah. The cooking place and hall are at the left. There is a book room between the chapel and E[dmund]'s den. The hall has a "dirty, uninhabitable garret above". There is a circular fuchsia bed at top right, on the gravel. At the right is text: 'What is shaded has rooms above it in the roof. no walls. Edmund enclosed a little box for his own den off the passage. What is now Book-room was the old entrance hall - conveniently placed as there is no bell! The Hall was the old kitchen a dreary dirty dark room. We have lined it roughly with calico, put in more little windows, & use it as our dining room - The cooking place & washg shed are chiefly our contribution to Dr R's roofs.' This plan is on the verso of Episcopal [house] Nelson, thought to be by Maria Nicholson. A letter from Mary Hobhouse of June 2nd 1860, says "I have just been making a plan on the back of one of Miss Hobhouse's drawings to illustrate the subject of the house ..." According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Miss Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.