Flowers

Date: 1899 - 1900

By: Nairn & Sons Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Nairn-1899-01

Description: Catalogue of coniferous trees and shrubs, forest trees, , specimen trees for street planting, hedge and edging plants, ornamental trees and shrubs, hardy climbing plants, stove and greenhouse plants, hardy herbaceous plants and tubers, roses, begonias, pelargoniums, dahlias, fuchsias, chrysanthemums, etc., fruits and nuts, and fruit trees. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 72 pages, 243 x 180 mm.

Date: 1899 - 1900

By: Nairn & Sons Ltd; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Nairn-1896-01

Description: Catalogue of coniferous trees and shrubs, forest trees, specimen trees for street planting, hedge and edging plants, ornamental trees and shrubs, hardy climbing plants, stove and greenhouse plants, hardy herbaceous plants and tubers, bulbs, roses, azalias, pelargoniums, dahlias, fuchsias, chrysanthemums, rhododendrons etc., etc., fruits. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 108 pages, 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1889

By: Nairn & Sons Ltd; Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Nairn-1889-01

Description: Catalogue of ornamental trees and shrubs, hardy climbing plants, stove and greenhouse plants, hardy herbaceous plants and tubers, bulbs, roses, pelargoniums, dahlias, fuchsias, chrysanthemums, rhododendrons etc., etc., edging plants and fruits. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 35 pages, 210 x 138 mm.

Date: 1916

By: C M Banks Ltd; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Gibbons-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogue for H C Gibbons of 180 Lambton Quay Wellington. Stock included roses, ornamental trees and plants, fruit trees. Illustrated with black and white engravings. This copy is accompanied by the wrapper in which it was originally posted to Mr Thos. Harris, Putaruru, Auckland. The wrapper was also printed by Whitcombe and Tombs and shows an illustration of roses. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 44 pages, 250 x 188 mm.

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: 1904

By: Nairn & Sons Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Nairn-1904-01

Description: Catalogue of coniferous trees and shrubs, hedge and edging plants, hardy herbaceous plants and tubers, roses, camellias, begonias, pelargoniums, dahlias, fuchsias, chrysanthemums, fruit trees. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 1 v., illus., some col., 241 mm.

Date: 1904

By: H C Gibbons & Company; C M Banks Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Gibbons-1904-01

Description: Sales catalogue for H C Gibbons of 131 Lambton Quay Wellington, with nurseries in Lower Hutt, and branches in Gisborne and Blenheim. Stock included flowers, shelter trees, fruit trees. Generously illustrated with black and white engravings. Preliminary page shows a group photograph of the nursery staff at Hutt Valley Nurseries, Lower Hutt, taken in November 1903. Pages i-xxviii feature novelties and recent introductions in the areas of vegetable seeds, flower seeds - all generously illustrated with engravings. Two copies held. Incomplete copy had front cover and initial 38 pages missing on arrival in the Library. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of xxviii, 184 pages, each 270 x 212 mm.

Date: 1927

Reference: PA-Group-00431

Description: Views of the 1927 Royal Tour of New Zealand by the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Includes displays viewed and events attended by the royal couple, as well as travelling between towns by car and train. Places visited include: the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram airport, Canterbury University, the view over Lyall Bay from Truby King's house, Dunedin war memorial and the war memorial at Waitaki Boys' High School, Government House in Wellington. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-048049 to 048258, 049253 to 049455, 1/2-175202 to 175220 Quantity: 386 b&w original negative(s) glass. 27 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2002. Reference number changed from PAColl-6909 to PA-Group-00431 in 2009.

Date: 1912

By: Spelman (Liverpool, England)

Reference: Eph-C-SHIP-1912-01

Description: Memorial paper serviette. The border shows printed and handpainted pink apple blossoms, around a central panel of text giving an account of the wreck of the 'Titanic' on 14 April 1912, a report of sympathy messages, and a list of the crew who came from Liverpool, the local area where this serviette was printed. At the top of the central panel is an illustration of the four-funnelled steamship 'Titanic'. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and watercolour on paper napkin, 370 x 355 mm.

Date: 1961

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

Reference: E-029-q-111

Description: Shows a path with flowering shrubs and flower beds on either side. 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: 1915

From: Various artists :[Thirty-nine watercolours, the collection and/or work of Maurice Crompton Smith. 1890-1940s].

Reference: A-372-010

Description: Shows pink blossom, reeds and possibly water. Artist may be Maurice Crompton Smith. Other Titles - September Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 253 x 178 mm.

Date: 1930

From: Duncan & Davies Nurseries: [Horticultural sales catalogues. 1910s-1980s]

By: Duncan & Davies Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Duncan-1930-01

Description: Catalogue of this New Plymouth nurseryman lists native trees and shrubs, ferns, additional seeds, veronicas, climbing plants, rock and alpine plants, tree ferns, orchids. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 40 pages, 179 x 115 mm.

Date: 1926 - 1941

From: Wickham, Charles, 1853-1940s :Family album. Uncle Charlie's unfinished drawings. [1926-1941].

Reference: E-563-q-001

Description: Shows the grounds of a wooden house with verandah showing at the right side of the picture. The garden has a flower bed with tall stems (possibly hollyhocks or foxgloves) beside the house, and a border along the left side of the lawn. There is a tree partially obscured by the house, and the entrance gate in the centre background. A large flowering tree is at the extreme left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) inserted in slits in page of album.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 185 x 247 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Mr Thomas H Hudson of England in 1997.

Date: 1940 - 1987

By: Turnbull, Marie Elizabeth, 1917-

Reference: A-006-043

Description: Botanical illustration of the plant, showing two stalks with leaves and flowerheads, the left one in full bloom, the right one with seed heads and the last of the flowers. Title from accompanying label in artist's hand. Accompanied by: New Zealand flower studies; gift-wrap paper for which watercolour is the original - paper is now at A-006-044. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - MET (joined into one monogram).; Verso - centre - Chatham Islands / Forget-me-not / Myosotidium hortensia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 309 x 229 mm. (sight).

Date: 1936 - 1937

From: [Holdsworth, Alice Mabel] 1878-1963 :[Plants and scenery from a New Zealand trip] 1936-1937

Reference: E-252-q-024

Description: Two branches of clematis and branches of other flowers in various colours, some growing at Wairakei, some on the Waikato river and one from Wairunga Falls. Includes artist's description of flowers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in album. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 310 x 230 mm in grey buckram album

Date: 1960 - 1961

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973; Cargill, Elsie Jane, 1900-1982

Reference: E-164-q

Description: Flowering plants, mostly common garden plants. Inscriptions: Flyleaf: [title and] To Elsie Jane Cargill from Mother Jane Brenkley, Norsewood, May 28th 1967.; Some pages signed: Jane Brenkley. All pictures identified and titled by the artist. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) Black buckram, cream linen boards. Physical Description: 156 watercolours in album 246 x 310 mm

Date: 1887

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-022

Description: A branch of hoheria (houhere) in flower, along with a drawing lower left in pencil of the sepals and pistil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 266 x 214 mm Provenance: Provenance: Swainson family

Date: ca1968

From: Baillie, William Jeavons Hall, 1941-:Slides, photographs, and other material

Reference: PA12-0229

Description: Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1904

From: Chevalier, Caroline, 1836?-1917 :Sketchbook 1903-1904

Reference: E-065-2-046

Description: Three rough sketches of female flower-sellers, probably on the Cote d'Azur. One woman has a barrel on her head, one has a large basket with flowers on her head, the third is seated with flowers alongside her Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper glued to sketchbook page, image size 178 x 118 mm

Date: 1958

By: Jemmett (Firm); Simon Printing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Jemmett

Description: Catalogue of this Palmerston North nurseryman lists perennial flowering plants. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 58 pages, 215 x 142 mm.