Mountain plants

Date: 1909 to 1918

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-008

Description: Photographs supplementary to the 3 MS foolscap volumes of Annals of the Tararua Range (Vol 1, figures 1-146). Images show geology, topography, physiography and flora of the Tararua Ranges. Views of the Tararua Ranges, with peaks named (figs 1-6); ascent of Mt Waiopehu (3588 ft.), 22 Jan 1909 (figs 8-10); 1st crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 13-19 Feb 1909, finishing on a campsite on the farmland of Alfred Deal at Waingawa, also a view of Mr Deal's house, and views of Masterton, including the Masterton Post Office and public gardens (figs 11-45); visit to the High Fall on the Poruriri Ridge near Tokomaru, 30 Oct 1910 (figs 46-49); ascent of Mt Tawirikohukohu (3455 ft) via the Ohau Rover, 18 Dec 1910 (figs 50-52); 3rd ascent of Mt Waiopehu, 3-6 Jan 1911 (Figs 73-76); across the Tararua Range via Palmerston North-Pahiatua Road, 22-23 Jan 1911 (figs 73-76); visit to the Ohau-Mangahao divide via the southern branch of the Ohau River, 12 Feb 1911 (figs 77-83); 2nd crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 9-17 Feb 1911 (figs 84-128); ascent of Te Paki trig station on the Tararua foothils east of Shannon, 10 Dec 1916 (figs 129-132); topography & physiography of the valley of the Makahika, tributary of the Ohau River, 6 Jan 1918 (figs 133-134); 2nd ascent of Te Paki & topography of the Upper Tokomaru Valley, 28 Apr 1918 (figs 135-136); 1st visit to the No.1 gorge on the Mangahao River, 29 Feb 1919 (figs 137-138); topography & physiography of the Waireka & Wainui valleys, 13 Apr 1919 (figs 139-142); physiography of the Poruriri Ridge & Mangaharakeke Falls, on the Tararua western foothills near Tokomaru, 24 Aug 1919 (figs 143-146).

Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: n d

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-328

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1988 - 1999

By: Kereru Nursery; Metcalf, Lawrence James, 1928-2017

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Kereru

Description: Lists a variety of alpines, bulbs and rock garden plants. The nursery was run by Pat and Charlie Challenger in Okuti Valley, Little River, Canterbury. Quantity: 15 catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets each page 213 x 150 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: 11 Dec 2006

From: Otari Wilton's Bush oral history project

By: Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0830-02

Description: Interview with Bob Brockie, born Christchurch, 23 April 1932, and brought up in Merivale, Christchurch. Refers to his father Walter Boa Brockie emigrating to New Zealand in 1921 and working first as a gardener in Dunedin. Mentions his father started working at the Botanic Gardens in Christchurch in 1928 and was quickly promoted. Outlines how after six months on Campbell Island as a meteorological officer in 1946, his father shifted to Wellington in 1947 for the job of curator at Otari-Wilton's Bush. Recalls that the Bush was neglected after the war, and his father gave up on the forest communities, concentrating instead on rock gardens for alpine plants. Mentions that much of the reserve was in gorse in the 1940s and 1950s. Outlines other native plantings his father did in Wilton and Wadestown. Mentions that possums were rare in the 1950s and discusses the birds he saw. Describes his father's plant-collecting trips, mainly to the South Island. Outlines his father's work in hybridising native species. Mentions his father's connections with the DSIR Botany Division. Also mentions his father writing a book titled Growing Alpine Plants, editing the National Gardener, and writing gardening columns for the Ashburton Guardian and a Christchurch magazine City Beautiful. Briefly discusses his own activities at Otari-Wilton's Bush and university career. Interviewer(s) - Johnathan Kennett Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5576. Search dates: 1921 - 1947 - 2006

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: 1910 - 1930

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-384-019/026

Description: Shows photographic prints of flowers, mainly in European alpine settings: Gentiana asclepiadea Primula auricula, Erica carnea, Globularia cordifolia Myosotis apestris, Anemone viscosa, Primula latifolia Linaria alpina, Geum reptans, Ranunculus glacialis, Androsace glacialis Leontopodium alpinum Pulsatilla vernalis Gentiana bavarica Papaver pyrenaicum Other Titles - Pictures of vegetation Quantity: 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour prints on cards, each 287 x 186 mm.

Date: 1938

From: Holdsworth, Alice Mabel 1878-1963 :[New Zealand plants and scenery] / A M Holdsworth 1937-1938

By: Holdsworth, Alice Mabel, 1878-1963

Reference: E-251-f-3-011

Description: A branch of an alpine plant, growing at Ruapehu about 500 ft, with white berries and tiny leaves. Only a small section of the drawing is coloured. Artist's note describes conditions of growth and leaves etc. A sprig of the plant copied is attached to the album page. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in album, page size, 254 x 385 mm

Date: 1990 - 1995

By: Thirlstane Alpine Nursery

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Thirlstane

Description: Mail order catalogues for this alpine nursery of Joan and Ian Whillans, Ruapuna, No 5 R D, Ashburton. Issues were twice-yearly. Issues held: Spring 1990 - Autumn/Winter 1994, Autumn/Winter 1995. Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) nursery catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets, each 212 x 145 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Arnold Books (Christchurch) in 2003.

Date: 31 January - 7 February 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8780

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of Lake Coleridge, the Rakaia River, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki showing the outflow river, views from the Hermitage (including Mts Sefton and Cook), terminal moraine in the Tasman Valley, and Ball Hut and the botanising ground with gentians and mountain daisies. Slides on this sheet are numbered 176-206 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. (No. 175 of Lake Coleridge, is not noted on this sheet, but is one of those removed for the lecture series). Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. [175], 178-179, 181-184, 189, 191-194, 197, 204) showing views of Lake Coleridge and country around, Rakaia River, the road to Mount Cook (Aoraki/Mount Cook), Lake Pukaki to Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, Hermitage Hotel, and the Tasman Valley from Ball Hut looking up the glaciers. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1879

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-046

Description: Drawing of an unidentified alpine plant with oval leaves and two mauve dropping flower heads on a long stem; and a brown orchid-like flower with a golden yellow throat. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 120 x 172 mm

Date: December 1903-January 1904

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

Reference: PA1-o-037

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by Sir Edmund Oswald Teale, who visited New Zealand to attend a meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in Dunedin between December 1903 and January 1904. Images include a number showing geological formation along the route between Napier and Taupo; images of hot springs and mud pools, and the Aratiatia Rapids; Napier and Wellington. Views of the South Island include many in the Mount Cook region, and show various glaciers, including the Tasman Glacier, Hochstetter Glacier, and the Hooker Glacier; geological aspects of moraines, crevasses and moulins associated with glaciers; Lake Pukaki; alpine flowers in the Tasman Valley; a carriage and horses near the Hermitage, with Mount Sefton visible behind; the Mataura River and Bluff. A collection of duplicates are filed in a pocket at the front of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, 235 x 185 mm

Date: 1928 to 1930

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-o-012

Description: Flora, fauna and Maori subjects, vol 2, 1928-1930. Black & white photographs including flora of Mount Waiopehu, Tararua western foothills January 1928; thunder cloud formation over Tararua Range; James W Butcher beside a hakeke (or Maori holly) bush in the Upper Mangahao Valley (1929). Vegetation of the Wilkin Valley, Lake Wanaka, Otago, including beech forest. Lower North Island with views including a frost fish, caught at Hokio Beach, Levin, in July 1932.

Date: [Circa 1910s-1930s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Barker, Clive Studholme, 1899-1994; Frazer, William D, active 1920s-1940s; Frind, Herbert Otto, 1887-1961; Graham, Elizabeth Muriel, -1957; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Kurz, Marcel, 1887-1967; Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Porter, Harold Edward Lionel, 1886-1973; Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938

Reference: PAColl-0959-34

Description: Alpine views in the South Island, many apparently taken by Marcel Kurz (according the the title on the box), though none have the name Kurz noted. However other photographers are named on the back of many of the photographs including Ebenezer Teichelmann (no. 1); W.D. Frazer (nos. 18-20, 48-58); H.O.F. (Herbert Otto Frind) (nos. 21-26, 40-45); Leslie Hinge (no. 47); H.E.L. Porter (nos. 59-65); Mrs P. Graham (Elizabeth Muriel Graham) (no. 66); C. Barker (no. 67); ? Lewthwaite (nos. 71-72, 75-76); and G.E. Mannering (nos. 77-81, 85-89). Nos. 1-11 show scenes on the route to Alex Knob, with the Franz Josef Glacier and the Divide at its head, and the Waiho Valley; nos. 27-39 are en route to, and views from, Torres Peak; and nos. 40-44 are views from Mt Thomson. Photograph number 47 shows seven guides with a coiled climbing rope and two crossed ice picks in front. The guides are not identified on the image, but are identified from comparison with image at (1/2-035265-G). They are (back row from left) Alf Cowling, Jock Richmond, Jack Lippe, Charlie Milne and Frank Milne; (front row) Darby Thomson and Peter Graham. According to this copy of the photograph it was taken by [Leslie] Hinge. There are a large number of images of native alpine plants, some of which are unidentified. Many have the name of W D Frazer as photographer. (The plant images are nos. 13-17, 51, 53, 55, 57, 67-76, 87). Identified names are listed in the subject field above. Most of the places identified are listed above. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1984 - 1991 - 1989 - 1992

By: Hokonui Alpines; Metcalf, Lawrence James, 1928-2017

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Hokonui

Description: Mail order catalogues listing alpine plants for sale, from the Gore nursery of Peter and Louise Salmond. Years held are: 1984-1989, 1991-1992 (some dups). Quantity: 12 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet, sizes ranging from 200 to 300 mm. Provenance: Some catalogues donated by Mr Lawrie Metcalf in 2008; some purchased from Arnold Books, Christchurch, in 2003.

Date: 24 December 1929 to 12 January 1930

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-004

Description: Black & white photographs of a visit to Lake Wanaka, the Wilkin Valley, and the southern end of the Southern Alps via Dunedin and Central Otago, 24 December 1929 to 12 January 1930. Also includes three maps, two hand-drawn, one showing geographical locations and details of the South Island, and the other showing the main divide of the Southern Alps from Haast Pass to Mount Aspiring, the Wilkin Valley and the head of Lake Wanaka. Members of the group on the trip are listed as J S Shanks, J W Butcher, W E Wilson, J K Nichols, W R Hart, B Cahill, G L Adkin, R Diedrich, and there is a photograph on page 28 which identifies all except B Cahill, who is not shown. The album includes images of Caroline Bay, Timaru; Dunedin; Otago Harbour; the junction of the Manuherikia River with the Molyneux (now called the Clutha River) at Alexandra, showing the suspension bridge, with the Raggedy Range in the background; Wanaka township (known as Pembroke until 1940); log cabin at Makarora Wharf (Lake Wanaka); ascent of Mount Aztec; views of Mount Castor and Mount Pollux, and the Wilkin Glacier.

Date: 1929 - 1935

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

By: New Zealand Alpine Garden Society; Lyon, Esma Winifred, 1922-2011

Reference: Eph-A-HORT-SOC-NZAlp-1900s

Description: Includes: 1931: NZ Alpine & Rock Garden Society (Inc). Official visit of Their Excellencies The Governor General and Lady Bledisloe to celebrate the clearing of the site and the completion of the first section of the Rock Garden. Riddiford Park Lower Hutt, 30 November 1931. Programme Plant seller's directory: 1997 Programme: 1989, 1992, 1999 Seed list: 1990, 1991, 1993 (2 copies), 1994, 1995 (2 copies), 1996, 1997 Show notes and regulations: 1988? Schedules of the Society for the 1970s are held in the Serials section of the Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying up to 180 mm. Provenance: Some items donated from the estate of Jim and Esma Lyon, Christchurch, 2014.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-10739

Description: Photograph of a New Zealand Post first day cover showing four stamps depicting native alpine plants. The date on the post mark on the first day envelope is 7 June 1972, but this is probably not the date when the photograph was taken. Given that the photograph was associated with a series of publications dating from 1979 to 1989, the photograph was probably taken some time in the 1980s. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1965 - 1975

By: New Zealand weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-PICTURE-CARDS-NZWN

Description: Includes albums titled: Trains around New Zealand; a NZ weekly News special collectors' folio Mountain flowers of New Zealand; a NZ weekly News special collection Birds of New Zealand; a series of 20 Quantity: 3 album(s). Physical Description: Spiral-bound booklets 185 x 260 mm. Provenance: Donated by Janet Horncy, Wellington, in 2017.