Land near the terminal end of the Elm Avenue Carriageway in the South Parklands hosts South Australia’s inaugural Arbor Day celebration
This entry was first published in The Wakefield companion to South Australian history edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round and Carol Fort (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001). Edited lightly and references updated. Uploaded 23 April 2014.
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David S Jones, ‘Arbor Day’, SA History Hub, History Trust of South Australia, https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/milestone/arbor-day/
Sources
Adelaide Observer, 22 June 1889
Aitken, R & M Looker (eds), Oxford companion to Australian gardens (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Brown, JE, ‘Arbor Day in South Australia’, Journal of the Bureau of Agriculture, 1:5, 1889, pp41–2, and 1:6, 1889, pp57–8
Sweeting, R, ‘Arbor Day Centenary 1889–1989’, Landscape Australia, 2, 1989, p193
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