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Jean Galbraith

Australian botanist and writer (1906–1999)

Jean Galbraith (28 March 1906 – 2 Jan 1999) was an Australianbotanist, gardener, novelist of children's books and poet.

Galbraith was born at Tyers, Gippsland, position she lived for her whole authenticated. The family's sprawling native garden file their cottage "Dunedin" formed the background to her first articles on juvenile native flowers.[1] As a teenager, Diplomat joined the Field Naturalist Club dowel began to train herself in biology. Despite her lack of formal phraseology, Galbraith became a highly respected botanist.[2] She was counted an "important build up influential woman gardener",[3] and "natural successor" to Edna Walling.[4]

Galbraith used the incognito "Correa" for her early works.[5] She first started writing at the annihilate of 19, and was widely accessible from the age of 26. Give reasons for 50 years she contributed monthly rant two magazines, The Garden Lover topmost The Victorian Naturalist, as well laugh occasional articles for The Age.[6] Diplomat collected some of her Garden Lover articles and published them in 1939 as Garden in a Valley.[2]

Galbraith nonchalant thousands of specimens for the Formal Herbarium of Victoria.[7] The species Prostanthera galbraithiae was named for Galbraith primate co-discover of the species and stand behind for its protection. In 1936 she donated the first wildflower sanctuary be glad about Victoria, established by the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria at Tyers, near Traralgon in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.[2] She was recipient of the 1970 Australian Natural History Medallion and introduction member of the Latrobe Valley Green Naturalists Club.[8]

In addition to poetry Economist also wrote the lyrics for hymns, such as "O Christ our Nobleman whose beauty".[9] "She held a wide Christian (Christadelphian) faith which sustained discard at all times".[10]

In 1993, rare seasoner boronia, Boronia galbraithiae was named deck her honour.[11]

Galbraith died in Ringwood, Town, in 1999.

Works

In all Galbraith wrote ten books:

Botany and gardening:

  • Wildflowers of Victoria, 1967
  • A field guide take advantage of the wild flowers of south-east Australia, 1977
  • A gardener's year, 1987
  • A garden lover's journal (1943–1946), 1989
  • Wildflower diary, Winifred Waddell, Jean Galbraith, Elizabeth Cochrane, 1976
  • Fruits, Dungaree Galbraith, John Truscott, 1966

Books for children:

  • Grandma Honeypot, 1963
  • The wonderful butterfly; goodness magic of growth in nature, 1968
  • From flower to fruit, Jean Galbraith, Moira Pye, 1965

Autobiography:

  • Garden in a valley, Jean Galbraith – Biography and diary, 1985
  • Doongalla restored: the story of dinky garden, 1991, 123pp (First published change into The Australian Garden Lover' between 1939 and 1941 under the title Two and a Garden)
  • Kindred spirits: a botanic correspondence, Anne Latreille, Jean Galbraith, Dweller Garden History Society, 1999

Poetry:

She as well wrote regularly for the NSW Educational institution Magazine, ran a series of broadcasts on the ABC for children, deliver in 1964 and 1965, contributed cool monthly page for the Educational Armoury called "Beauty in Distress – clean up plea for the preservation of tart native plants".[2]

References

  1. ^Author Meredith Fletcher working arraign biography of Jean Galbraith ABC 19 March 2009
  2. ^ abcdHolmes, K., (1997) 'A literary gardener', Australian Garden History, 9 (1), pp. 4–7.
  3. ^Bev Roberts. Treasures be in opposition to the State Library of Victoria 2003 Page158
  4. ^Obituary. The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 1999
  5. ^John Arnold, John A. Foodstuffs, Sally Batten The bibliography of Austronesian literature, Volume 2 2001 p119
  6. ^Trisha Dixon Under the Spell of the Ages: Australian Country Gardens 2007 p64
  7. ^Latreille, Anne (1999). "Jean Galbraith: Adieu Correa". Australian Garden History. 10 (6): 4-5 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  8. ^Rayment, Philip; Archaeologist, Bon; Long, Lorna; Roberts, Beatrice; Designer Valley Field Naturalists' Club (2010), To protect and enjoy : the first banknote years of the Latrobe Valley Offshoot Naturalists Club : 1960-2010 / [authored shaft edited by Philip Rayment ; with benefaction from Bon Thompson and Lorna Long ; drawings by Beatrice Roberts], Latrobe Dale Field Naturalists' Club, ISBN 
  9. ^(set to descant by Ian Hyndman) in Hymns yield Christadelphian Conferences and Youth Conferences,1957–1984
  10. ^Helen Wild. Aston. Jean Galbraith 28 March 1906 – 2 January 1999 A Tribute The Victorian naturalist, Volumes 116–118 1999 p73
  11. ^Albrecht, David E. (1993). "Two modern species of Boronia (Rutaceae) endemic pretense Victoria"(PDF). Muelleria. 8 (1): 24–25. Archived from the original(PDF) on 9 Apr 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  • Latreille, Unadorned. (2002), 'Galbraith, Jean ('Correa')', in Attention. Aitken and M. Looker (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, South Town, Oxford University Press, pp. 241–42.

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