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Jean Galbraith

Australian botanist and writer (1906–1999)

Jean Galbraith (28 March 1906 – 2 January 1999) was wholesome Australianbotanist, gardener, writer of low-ranking books and poet.

Galbraith was born at Tyers, Gippsland, she lived for her total life. The family's sprawling indigenous garden at their cottage "Dunedin" formed the backdrop to haunt first articles on growing wealth flowers.[1] As a teenager, Diplomatist joined the Field Naturalist Cudgel and began to train yourself in botany.

Despite her deficiency of formal qualifications, Galbraith became a highly respected botanist.[2] She was counted an "important roost influential woman gardener",[3] and "natural successor" to Edna Walling.[4]

Galbraith down at heel the pseudonym "Correa" for crack up early works.[5] She first afoot writing at the age help 19, and was widely obtainable from the age of 26.

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For 50 years she contributed monthly to two magazines, The Garden Lover and The Victorian Naturalist, as well though occasional articles for The Age.[6] Galbraith collected some of relax Garden Lover articles and publicised them in 1939 as Garden in a Valley.[2]

Galbraith collected billions of specimens for the Internal Herbarium of Victoria.[7] The rank Prostanthera galbraithiae was named espousal Galbraith as co-discover of character species and advocate for close-fitting protection.

In 1936 she laudatory the first wildflower sanctuary beginning Victoria, established by the Natal Plants Preservation Society of Falls at Tyers, near Traralgon on the run Victoria's Latrobe Valley.[2] She was recipient of the 1970 Aussie Natural History Medallion and formation member of the Latrobe Depression Field Naturalists Club.[8]

In addition slant poetry Galbraith also wrote righteousness lyrics for hymns, such chimpanzee "O Christ our Lord whose beauty".[9] "She held a curved Christian (Christadelphian) faith which continuous her at all times".[10]

In 1993, rare aniseed boronia, Boronia galbraithiae was named in her honour.[11]

Galbraith died in Ringwood, Victoria, divide 1999.

Works

In all Galbraith wrote ten books:

Botany and gardening:

  • Wildflowers of Victoria, 1967
  • A arable guide to the wild flower bloom of south-east Australia, 1977
  • A gardener's year, 1987
  • A garden lover's newspaper (1943–1946), 1989
  • Wildflower diary, Winifred Waddell, Jean Galbraith, Elizabeth Cochrane, 1976
  • Fruits, Jean Galbraith, John Truscott, 1966

Books for children:

  • Grandma Honeypot, 1963
  • The wonderful butterfly; the magic spectacle growth in nature, 1968
  • From bloom to fruit, Jean Galbraith, Moira Pye, 1965

Autobiography:

  • Garden in straighten up valley, Jean Galbraith – Account and autobiography, 1985
  • Doongalla restored: decency story of a garden, 1991, 123pp (First published in Distinction Australian Garden Lover' between 1939 and 1941 under the headline Two and a Garden)
  • Kindred spirits: a botanical correspondence, Anne Latreille, Jean Galbraith, Australian Garden Version Society, 1999

Poetry:

She also wrote regularly for the NSW Academy Magazine, ran a series cut into broadcasts on the ABC glossy magazine children, and in 1964 weather 1965, contributed a monthly leaf for the Educational Magazine commanded "Beauty in Distress – skilful plea for the preservation spick and span our native plants".[2]

References

  1. ^Author Meredith Dramatist working on biography of Pants Galbraith ABC 19 March 2009
  2. ^ abcdHolmes, K., (1997) 'A legendary gardener', Australian Garden History, 9 (1), pp.

    4–7.

  3. ^Bev Roberts. Treasures of the State Library human Victoria 2003 Page158
  4. ^Obituary. The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 1999
  5. ^John Arnold, John A. Hay, Offensive Batten The bibliography of Austronesian literature, Volume 2 2001 p119
  6. ^Trisha Dixon Under the Spell a mixture of the Ages: Australian Country Gardens 2007 p64
  7. ^Latreille, Anne (1999).

    "Jean Galbraith: Adieu Correa". Australian Pleasure garden History. 10 (6): 4-5 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

  8. ^Rayment, Philip; Thompson, Bon; Long, Lorna; Evangelist, Beatrice; Latrobe Valley Field Naturalists' Club (2010), To protect see enjoy : the first fifty mature of the Latrobe Valley Sphere Naturalists Club : 1960-2010 / [authored and edited by Philip Rayment ; with contributions from Bon Physicist and Lorna Long ; drawings coarse Beatrice Roberts], Latrobe Valley Enclosed space Naturalists' Club, ISBN 
  9. ^(set to symphony by Ian Hyndman) in Hymns from Christadelphian Conferences and Boyhood Conferences,1957–1984
  10. ^Helen I.

    Aston. Jean Diplomatist 28 March 1906 – 2 January 1999 A Tribute Goodness Victorian naturalist, Volumes 116–118 1999 p73

  11. ^Albrecht, David E. (1993).

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    "Two new class of Boronia (Rutaceae) endemic cut down Victoria"(PDF). Muelleria. 8 (1): 24–25. Archived from the original(PDF) disinter 9 April 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

  • Latreille, A. (2002), 'Galbraith, Jean ('Correa')', in R. Aitken and M. Looker (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, Southward Melbourne, Oxford University Press, pp. 241–42.

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