The Shagroons’ Palace. A History of the Christchurch Club.

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The Shagroons’ Palace. A History of the Christchurch Club.Gordon Ogilvie. An absorbing and well illustrated account of the characters who have made up the membership of the club over 150 years. Among them may be numbered scores of prominent political and civic leaders, lawyers, doctors, artists, architects, engineers, academics, literary figures, business leaders and agriculturalists. This copy signed by the author. Henry Elworthy for the Christchurch Club, 2005. ISBN 9780473104207 Hardback with dust jacket.

Includes the cottage garden

There are three lithograph plates

Many of these common flowers are now naturalised in New Zealand

An interesting history of the nineteenth century collection formed by Edward Hitchcock at Amhurst College

Weathervane Books

in the mild climate of Cornwall

Angus and Robertson Pty Ltd

Traces the policies and scientific developments in New Zealand farming

Includes a colour guide to New Zealand garden birds

ISBN 9781869340162

including details of its origins

Based on a series of articles published in the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture and first reprinted in 1956