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Article: Thomas Shepherd's Landscape Gardening in Australia (1836).
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- M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia
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- August 1, 2007
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In 1836 in Sydney bookshops there appeared a book entitled Lectures on Landscape Gardening in Australia by the late Mr. Thomas Shepherd. The book was published by William McGarvie, a Sydney bookseller, and the operator of a subscription library in George Street, Sydney. This was the second book by Thomas Shepherd a Sydney horticulturist and the proprietor of the Darling Nursery, the first of its kind in the colony. The book on Landscape Gardening came about as the result of a series of lectures on that subject that was planned to be given at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. Shepherd gave the first lecture but died before he could complete the series. The publisher ...