The Botanic Garden Wellington. A New Zealand History 1840-1987. 1988. illustr. 396 p. 4to. Cloth.

Contents: The Acquisition and Establishment of the Colonial BotanicGarden 1840-1891, by Winsome Shepherd (As it was in the beginning/ TheManagement/ Location, and Aspect/ Further Development in Those FirstYears/ The Native Bush/ Plant Trials/ Plant Trials - Conifers/ TheNursery/ The Pinetum/ Ornamentation/ Transportation of Plants/ Visitingthe Colonial Botanic Garden/ Last Years/ The Men who made the Garden/The Kew Connection)/ Changes and Development under the Wellington CityCouncil 1891-1987, by Walter Cook (An Introduction: The Botanic Gardenas Landscape,Artifact and Symbol/ 1889, The Council Challenge: A Preludeto Legislative Action/ The Council Estate: An Apprenticeship inPlantation Management/ "Nature in all Her Rugged Beauty": The BotanicGarden to 1901/ Towards a Peoples Park: The Trials and Tribulations of aPleasure Garden/ The Main Garden and Adjacent Areas/ At the Heart of theMatter: The Botanic Garden Nursery and the City's Reserves/ etc.).