Summary
This wax model is based on a specimen grown by the Horticultural Society of Victoria at their Burnley gardens and the model was presented to the museum by the National Agricultural Society in 1874 after the specimen was exhibited at the National Agricultural Society's Show, 3-5 April 1873. The model was made in the museum by Thomas McMillan for the National Agricultural Society.
This variety is not in Ikin's Listing of Fruits, 1974 edition.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from National Agricultural Society of Victoria, 1874
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Mr Thomas McMillan - Industrial & Technological Museum, Victoria, Australia, 1874
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Grower of Item Modelled
Mr Robert Whatmough, Burnley, Greater Melbourne, 1873
Seeling raised by Robert Whatmough in Greensborough but the tree itself grew in the Burnley Gardens. -
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