The Garden (tree)
Harold Finch-Hatton, whose brother Henry was a close neighbour (part owner of Mt Spencer Station) and friend to the Rawsons, describes the Rawson garden in his book Advance Australia published on his return to London in 1886:
‘The garden running along the top of the bank is a sight worth coming to Queensland to see. There is fifty feet of black soil here, and it must be a mean sort of plant that would not grow.
Lemons, limes, guavas, custard-apples, grapes, mangoes, oranges, and granadillas, all flourish in a state of perfection that speaks equally well for the care of their owner and the excellence of the climate. Mangoes and oranges seem to do especially well, and the trees of the latter were absolutely weighed down with fruit, and bananas and passion-fruit grow like weeds.’
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D.R.[Decima Rawson]
Last updated: 10th January 2008
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