Views in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens [B 45673] • Photograph


Adelaide Botanic Gardens : central view
A 'central view with Jubaea Spectabilis on the left'.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens: new lawn in front of museum
View across a lake to the 'new lawn in front of Museum of Economic Botany' (now housing the Botanic Garden's seed bank).


Adelaide Botanic Gardens: Moreton Bay fig and drinking fountain
'Ficus Rubiginosa and drinking fountain presented by Mrs T.R. Scarfe' in the Botanic Gardens.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens : fountain
'New lawn and fountain presented by R. Barr-Smith Esq.'; seven women are standing around the fountain.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens: lotus pond
View across the 'lotus pond. Nelumbiums in flower'.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens: fig tree on Asylum Hill
View of a 'Ficus Platyposa and new lawn on Asylum Hill'.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens: Niobe Hill
View of 'Niobe Hill and new lawns on slope' with the Lunatic Asylum in the distance.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens : Diana's Island and kiosk
View of 'Diana's Island and kiosk presented by A.M. Simpson, Esq.' in the Botanic Gardens.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens: Victoria Regia House
View of the giant water lilies flowering in the glass house: 'Victoria Regia House, rebuilt 1912. Victoria Regia in flower'. [Officially known as the 'Giant Amazonia' water lily; it was known locally as the Victoria water lily because it was housed in the Victoria House in the Botanic Gardens.]


Adelaide Botanic Gardens : aquarium
View of 'aquarium [with] Diana's Island in background' in the Botanic Gardens.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens: new border on Niobe Hill
View of the 'new border on back slope of Niobe Hill', with the back of the Lunatic Asylum in the middle ground.


Adelaide Botanic Gardens : camphor tree
View of a 'camphor tree 'laurus camphora' in the Botanic Gardens.