Rhododendrons

Date: 1985 - 1998

By: Cross Hills Gardens (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Crosshills

Description: Nursery catalogues for the nursery specialising in rhododendrons and azaleas. Years held are: 1985, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998 Also includes various pamphlets about the Cross Hills Gardens and nursery, dated from the mid-1980s to the 1990s. Quantity: 7 catalogues. 8 pamphlets and brochures. Physical Description: Booklets approximately 210 x 160 mm.

Date: 1990 - 1992 - 1995

By: Mark Jury Nursery

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Jury

Description: Nursery catalogues for the nursery specialising in rhododendrons, camellias, bulbs, hostas, magnolias. Years held are: 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995. Quantity: 6 catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets approximately 210 x 150 mm. Provenance: Some catalogues donated by Mr Donal Duthie, Wellington, in 2005; one by Lawrie Metcalf, in 2008.

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

Reference: PA4-1413

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a Rhododendron bush in a Dunedin garden Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1950s-1990s

From: Wassiliewa, Galina (estate) :Photographs relating to life and ballet career of Galina Wassiliewa in Lithuania and Wellington.

By: Wassiliew, Wassili, 1916-1983

Reference: PAColl-6125-09

Description: Galina and Wassili Wassiliewa lived at 16 St John Street on the northern side of the Aro Valley and connecting with the very end of the Terrace. Over many years photographs were taken of the living and dining rooms. These often included guests, though more often they are just interior shots or photographs of Galina and her dogs. Galina seems to have kept dogs most of the time she lived in New Zealand, her last being a huge white Pyrenean mountain dog called Tata, and an English labrador called Fedia. She also kept cats. Quantity: 95 b&w original photographic print(s). 135 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Cock, Richard John, 1851-1936

Reference: Pan-2356-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a driveway which circles around a lawn to a single-storeyed wooden villa-styled house with verandahs separated by a bay. Finials over the gables. Palm trees on either side of steps up to the front verandah on the left of the bay with an unidentified woman standing by a verandah post. Turreted room at ground level (perhaps a conservatory) on the left. Retaining wall between the house and lawn at a lower level. Flower beds around the drive and some set into the lawn. Variety of established trees all around, including rhododendrons, palms and cabbage trees. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Overdale" New Plymouth 1923; Photographer's title on negative - R P Moore's circular business stamp; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] R. Cock. New Plymouth 3; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 115.0 cm

Date: [circa 1930s-1950s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-278

Description: Lantern slides relating to propagation of fruit trees, 1930s-1950s. Photographer(s) are unidentified, but most images appear to be copies of illustrations and texts from an unidentified gardening publication. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the subject. Includes examples of grafts, pruning, and training methods on apple trees (and one for a black currant bush). Also shows "extensive cropping" in Tasmania. Three further images show hyacinth seeds shooting, bulbs "crosscut and scooped", and pots for cuttings from rhododendrons. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 9 with paper divider marking set reading "Fruit pruning + crafting of fruit". Quantity: 15 b&w lantern slide(s) comprising 1 original image and 14 copy images. 1 colour lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-282

Description: Lantern slides of gardens and houses, circa 1930s-1950s. Photographer(s) are unidentified. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the location and/or the subject. Slides include: - Views of various gardens, flower beds, and trees. Also houses in the context of their gardens as well as surrounding farmland. Featured flowers and trees include magnolias, rhododendrons (with at least six images showing the same garden), clematis, weeping willow, stock, aquatic plants (lilies), acacia tree, and roses. Also includes structures associated with gardens such as ponds, rivers, fountains, statuary, a sundial, pathways, an arbour, and stone walls. - Series of images most likely taken at the Fleming & Co flour mill in Riccarton, Christchurch. One images includes Mill building. Gardens feature red hot poker flowers and water way. Image of Morris Eight car parked on road is also possibly in Riccarton. - Series of images of Millbrook Reserve, Christchurch, showing the Avon River, trees, and gardens. - Images often show unidentified people posing in various gardens besides trees and flower beds. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 7 Quantity: 1 b&w lantern slide(s). 39 colour lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: 1932 - 1978 - 1934 - 1982

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

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

Description: Includes ephemera from the following societies: Palmerston North Horticultural Society. Summer show. Empire Hall, 19 November 1932 Poverty Bay Horticultural Society. Schedule of shows 1932-1934 (Daffodil September 1932-1933; Rose November 1932-1933; Dahlia March 1933-1934; Chrysanthemum April 1933-1934) Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust. Two members tickets: 1978/79 and 1981/82 Some individual groups whose names begin with P may have been catalogued separately Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying around 220 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: List, Thomas Currie, 1879-1934

Reference: Pan-2851-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed wooden house centre left. Return verandah downstairs with plants, some roses, climbing up the verandah posts. Bay windows on both floors to right and left of the verandah. Flat section, lawn in front of the house edged with paths and planted borders. Trimmed hedge behind the border on the right continuing at right angles around a field. Large rhododendron on the left. Palm tree to the left of the house with a glasshouse visible behind. There are three people in the picture, two women seated on the lawn, one near the palm on the left and the other in front of the house. A man is seated on steps leading up to the front door. Trees in the background, paddocks far left. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - T.C. List. New Plymouth Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 100.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Pringle, James A, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1965-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed stone house centre right. Wrought iron garden seats, one beside the front door and the other under a window on the right. Venetian blinds in the windows. Creeper growing over the house. Gravel drive in front with lawn in the foreground. High conifers far right and in the background. Shrubs and trees edging the lawn and drive on the left include pampas grass, cabbage trees, and rhododendrons, and there is a palm tree beside the front door. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1967 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mr J A Pringle. Selwyn St. Timaru. Colors. Iron roof, stone house, white facings, faded green seats. Creeper in centre, violet. Red geraniums in front of house. Rhododendrons in bloom beside drive and lawn. Light and dark green foliage. Venetian blinds brown; Marginal notes on negative - 16 16 16 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 132.8 cm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2233-F

Description: Panoramic view taken just inside the main entrance to the Wellington Botanical Gardens in Glenmore Street. There are several people on the flat path which leads to the duck pond; bench seats at intervals; and agapanthus flowers in a bed along the path with tall trees and shrubs, including cabbage trees, behind. A path up to the left is bordered by a rustic fence to the right of which is a large Norfolk pine. Houses are just visible on the hill above Glenmore Street on the far right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Botanical Gardens, Wellington, N.Z. 1923; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - R P Moore's circular business stamp Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 116.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Shepherd, Leopold, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1599-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed house in the centre of the image with bull-nosed verandahs around three sides, and steps up to the front door in the centre. Lawn in foreground with raised rock garden in the middle. Row of cabbage trees with garden beds beneath inside a high trimmed hedge on the right. Fenced tennis court to the left of the house, and rounded areas of shrubs including camellias, rhododendrons and palms on left and right. Gravel path from left up to the house. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Mr L. Shepherd. Kaponga. 3 copies Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 120.0 cm

Date: Circa 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Sharpe, G H, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1642-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed house, iron roof, bullnosed verandah. Creeper growing up verandah post. Tall shelter-belt behind the house. Rose bed and arched climbing frame in front of the verandah. Rhododendrons far left at edge of lawn. Fir trees at the foot of tussock hills in the distance far left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - G.H. Sharpe. Ward. 3 oils. White house. Red roof. Roses in front. Tussock hills; Marginal notes on negative - 7 7 7 7 7 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.6 cm

Date: 1955 - 1999

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to gardens in specific locations in New Zealand].

Reference: Eph-B-GARDENS-Pukeiti-1900s

Description: Includes: 1955-1956: Reprints about Pukeiti, from Taranaki Herald. Also list of members, and newsletter 1956 1960-1970s: Pamphlets, locality plans, 1960 and 1961 newsletter 1983: Gatehouse Project Appeal 1983. Booklet (2 copies) 1990: Pukeiti; a garden for all seasons. Newsletter / annual report 1994: Pukeiti; a garden for all seasons. Plant list for members Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets and booklets, sizes varying up to 300 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources, including Penny Griffith and Norma Evans.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Mathews, James, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1493-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed roughcast house with brick base and brick verandah pillars. Tiled roof, shingles/slates in gables. Large lawn in foreground, flowers, shrubs and trees to left and right of house. Plants climbing up verandah pillars and up climbing frames. Large flax bush in border centre right. Wire netting fence far left with cabbage trees on the far side of the fence. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mr James Mathews, 27 Seddon St, Highfield. Timaru. 3 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 8 8 8 8 8 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.6 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Wood, J (Mrs), active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1494-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed wooden house, decorative slates/tiles [?] in the gables. Sleeping verandah upstairs on left above a bay downstirs. Corner conservatory. Front entrance behind a group of tall palms. Other palms on right. Border of rhododendrons along left. Flower beds including standard roses in lawn. Trees all round. Path up to the house through centre of image. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mrs J. [Wood? Writing not clear] ChCh; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - R P Moore, 80 Manners St. W'gton Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 97.8 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Lethbridge, Bennett Perry, -1929

Reference: Pan-2029-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed wooden farmhouse centre left. Iron roof, quoins, verandah over the entrance on the right. Large lawn in front, established trees and a row of rhododendrons lining the drive from the right. An open touring car is parked on the drive on the far right. Outbuildings amongst trees centre right, water tanks on a hill to the right behind the house, farmland on hills in the background. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Source of descriptive information - The owner's name taken from articles on the internet Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 [in list formation]; Photographer's title on negative - "AnnBank" Turakina Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.0 cm

Date: 1981

By: Thermal Nurseries

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Thermal

Description: Mail order catalogues for rhododendrons and camellias. Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, each 212 x 148 mm.

Date: Circa 1982 to 1984

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

Reference: PA12-8831

Description: Studies of trees, and spring scenes (taken in spring 1984) taken by Rhoda McWhannell, chiefly at the Rozel farm and nursery. The first 11 images are tree studies including fern fronds, the underside of a silver fern, the trunk of a eucalyptus maculosa, a black ponga (mamuku), New Zealand native clematis paniculata, and a twisted maple trunk. The last 10 images were taken in Spring 1984, and include a nandina hedge, kowhai blooms, a red camellia flower, dogwood flowers, a spring landscape, and a rhododendron flower. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1966

Reference: MapColl-832.2a/[1966?]/Acc.8763

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 24 x 17 cm. Scale 1:316 800