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Newsletter 200 May 2020 Maymay 20202020 Nneewwsslleetttteerr 220000 NEWSLETTER 200 MAY 2020 MAYMAY 20202020 NNEEWWSSLLEETTTTEERR 220000 To mark Cairns SGAP 40th year and the [brown Gardenia], Hymeneria fitzalanii [common 200th newsletter, I'm devoting this fuzz orchid] and Cycas species, which are today of significant importance in commercial and amenity month's edition to the history of horticulture. gardening with native plants in Cairns. To tell the story, I'm presenting a selection of articles from newspapers and old newsletters. EugeneEugene FitzalanFitzalan establishesestablishes aa nurserynursery John Dowe (2015) Cunninghamia, 15:87-133 Eugene Fitzalan came to Australia from Ireland Atractocarpus fitzalanii in fruit. about 1849 [and] moved to Cairns in 1886 [where he] became active in the initial development off the Cairns Municipal Botanical Reserve. Fitzalan’s contribution to horticulture was... DrDr FleckerFlecker advocatesadvocates significant. He was active in establishing a number of private gardens, as well as public gardens in aa BotanicalBotanical GardensGardens Bowen and Cairns. The Cairns Botanical Gardens is now an internationally recognised heritage-listed facility featuring tropical plants. forfor CairnsCairns He introduced a number of species into Dr Hugo Flecker, an internationally renowned horticulture, such as Atractocarpus fitzalanii medical researcher, was also the founder of the North Queensland Naturalists' Club. In his 1935 Newsletter 200 May 2020 1 presidential address to the Club, he advocated for with its pendant flowers spikes, the curious a Botanical Gardens in Cairns, which was Eugenia cormiflora [= Syzygium cormiflorum ] reported in the Northern Herald of the time. The with flowers and large fruit growing directly from address is remarkably prescient. the tree trunk, the Marking Nut tree Semecarpus The Northern Herald, 28 September 1935 [australiensis], some wattles, Acacia aulacocarpa and A. oraria still persist. In Anzac Park some self- ...Your committee believes that [an appeal to the planted trees likewise have survived, notably the City Council] being made to establish botanical Wormia alata [= Dillenia alata ] with its large gardens would be of great value... golden yellow flowers, a large Melaleuca, also Tourists do not come to see shops... which they can Mallotus philippensis, Timonius rumphii [= see just as well in their own home district. They do Timonius timon], etc... come to see what they cannot see elsewhere... In addition to these, numerous trees have been therefore, from a scientific, educational and planted, some of the finest being the various native commercial point of view [a garden] should be trees, notably the Tacahamac Tree, Calophyllum established. inophyllum along the That the powers that Esplanade, an Umbrella initiated the plans for Tree, Brassaia Cairns took a long actinophyllum [= view of its future as a Schefflera actinophylla], great city is evident by sadly lopped to allow its provision of and room for the overhead extensive area within high tension wires, some the city boundaries as a Queensland bean trees, botanical reserve. Castanospermum Indeed a botanical australe and quite garden was actually recently a number of started on that privately donated Flame paticularly fertile site Currajongs, at Edge Hill, but alas , Brachychiton acerifolius for some reason or have been added... other, it was [Despite] the fact that abandoned! Many there are hundreds of years have passed fine indigenous plants in since and it appears no Noth Queensland, only move has been made to about 25 are represented re-establish such a in the streets and parks scheme. around Cairns. [Elsewhere in the city] With the exception of a certain amount of Alexandra Palm decorative effort is (Archontophoenix shown in the planting Dr Hugo Flecker in 1932 alexandrae) none of the of the garden plots in many native palms seem the streets and in several of the parks... A few of to be cultivated... the original self-planted trees remain, notably the It is amongst the smaller shrubs that the greatest large Ficus infectoria [= Ficus virens] in Abbott weakness is shown, where fully 95 per cent consist Street, whilst along the Esplanade some of the of nothing else but crotons and Acalyphas. original Australian Banyans, Ficus thynneana [= Moreover, the extension of new plots in different Ficus microcarpa ] which appear to be found directions has not lessened this monotonous native only about the Cairns foreshore and a proportion, for there is barely a single plot in the number of other handsome trees such as whole city where these plants do not predominate... Cryptocarya triplinervis, Barringtonia calyptrata Of native ferns and orchids there is a great Newsletter 200 May 2020 2 abundance, and the latter at least are appreciated, 1953 and the position was taken up by Jim Gould although nowhere in the city are there any public until 1966. display of some of our most majestic ferns with In 1966 Cairns City Council appointed Vince fronds well over 18 feet in length. A bush house Winkel as Curator of Parks, Gardens and Reserves, reserved for these alone would attract immense a position he held until 1984, and in March 1967 interest and tourists would not likely forget these... adopted a five-year plan to develop 8 acres (3.24 As it takes many years to make a truly fine hectares) in the northwest of the Edge Hill reserve botanical gardens, the sooner a start is made the as a small botanical gardens. Collins Avenue and better... it is believed that if a director of parks and McCormack, Goodwin and McDonnell streets gardens be appointed, who has special experience... bordered the site. Winkel designed the new garden, is... possessed of sufficient enthusiasm... [and is] laying out a figure-of-eight walkway. The site was encouraged in this scheme by sufficient finance cut diagonally by a small creek over which a and the requisite skilled labour so that the plants bridge was erected, and the banks of the creek were shall be secured, arranged and properly and planted with various trees including Cassia, conspicuously labelled, it will not only be of Bauhinias, Parkia, Caesalpinia, Tabebuia and enormous educational value... but will supply a Semecarpus australiensis, known as the Tar tree. satisfying desire of a large band of tourists which a heap of advertising would never do. CairnsCairns SGAPSGAP isis TheThe BotanicBotanic GardensGardens formed.formed. emergesemerges Mary Gandini (founding member) Queensland Heritage Register, 2016 History of the branch In 1934-35 a significant advance [towards the This branch was formed in 1980 to create interest establishment of a formal botanical garden] was in the cultivation of our native species in made with around 25 acres (10 hectares) of the preference to exotic species. Originally, monthly reserve on the lower slopes of Mt Islay cleared of meetings were held at night with an excursion held heavy undergrowth and planted with young trees. on one Sunday each month, visiting interesting The mayor of Cairns advised that the reserve botanical areas as well as parks and private would be planted with "permanent trees which are gardens. noteworthy for their ornamentation and their Marion Haupt, Newsletter Number 1, May 1980 regularity of design, planted at pre-determined distances, so that they will provide permanent May meeting. avenues of great beauty." In the absence of President and Treasurer an ...This project continued until 1940 when part of informal meeting was held. It was well attended. A the recreation reserve was converted to a Quarry report on the Annual SGAP Conference was given Reserve for war purposes and part of the 1930s and a discussion on the growing of Callistemons in gardens work was destroyed by quarrying. It this area took place. Plants were brought in by appears that oil palms, poincianas, hoop pines, two three members. Acacias, Black Palm, Melastoma, rubber trees, a Dillenia, a Schizolobium, an Indian Burdekin Plum and a box of Grevillea sessilis were mango, a Wongai plum, a Terminalia and a Malay raffled. Many thanks to those members who broth Apple were planted during this period by Les them along. The plants were of high quality. Wright... A field trip was arranged to visit the gardens of Following Wright's death in 1947, Tom Mitchell Melsonrock Nursery on Sunday, 9th May at 1 p.m. was appointed to the curator's position. He held Thanks to Sandra Tenni for her hospitality. this position until his death in 1953. A red brick Irvinebank field trip house was built for Mitchell in the early 1950s. This house today houses the Garden's information On Sunday 4th May, a group of 6 vehicles centre and administration offices. Mitchell died in proceeded from Herberton to Stannary Hills. Many Newsletter 200 May 2020 3 stops along the way revealed some beautiful There were many more species, all interesting and specimens. Hovea, Trigger Plant, Eucalyptus many restricted to this remarkable area. We were shirleyi, [Corymbia] peltata, and [Eucalyptus] very fortunate to have Kerry Davis from Atherton similis, Helichrysum bracteatum [= Xerochrysum Native Nursery along to identify many species for bracteatum] and H. newcastlianum [Coronidium us. This is a trip that perhaps Cairns members newcastlianum] were some. A few kilometres from could organize sometime as only two Cairns Stannary Hills, Grevillea pteridifolia, Callitris members were able to come. intratropica and Acacia wickhamii were seen. We lunched at the site of the old Stannary Hills township. Melaleuca linariifolia, Eucalyptus TheThe OrchidOrchid StudyStudy tereticornis and a patch of naturalised Zinnias were growing at the dam wall. Further on, Kerry Davis GroupGroup led us to a patch of Macropterathes montana, a most unusual small tree with red or yellow tube Don and Pauline Lawie lead the Indigenous shaped flowers and tiny leaves close to the Orchid Study Group of the Australian Native branches. These trees looked old and gnarled. Plants Society from 1995 to March 2011. Here is a discussion in their newsletter of the trials and tribulations of growing Queensland's floral emblem - the magnificent Cooktown Orchid.
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