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Botanic Gardens [B 13259] • Photograph

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Summary

Botanic Gardens Victoria House glass house was built in 1868 to house one of the first cultivated displays of the Amazon Waterlily. This plant first flowered in 1868 producing 152 flowers and 176 leaves up to two metres in diameter. At the time the glass house attracted 30,000 visitors which was almost a fifth of Adelaide's population. The photograph shows numerous hanging baskets of tropical plants enjoying the humid conditions of the glass house

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Physical description

photograph

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1872

Creator

Sweet, Samuel White

Collections

Part of Adelaide Views Collection
Part of Botanic Gardens Collection

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Digitisation information

Date

24/05/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,192 x 2,475 pixels (7.9 MP)

Size

23.74 MB

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