Chapter 13: Come back in wattle time
p333 ‘Once again war . . .’ from Edith Coleman (E.C.) 1941, ‘Wattle Time: The golden river – beauty and individuality’, The Age, 16 August, p15. pp335–336 This reconstruction is based largely on Edith Coleman (E.C.) 1942, ‘Gardens need not be ugly: Camouflage for trenches and shelters–new beds for succulents’, The Age, 7 March, p7 and comments in Edith Coleman, 1948, ‘Planning the herb garden’, Your Garden, 1, pp22–23. The use of trench shelters in Melbourne is from ‘Progress with Trench Shelters’, The Argus, 5 January 1942, p3, while the Tennyson quote is from Part V. Death and Bereavement of ‘The May Queen’. p337 ‘All the boys . . .’ Donald Macdonald, 1909, ‘Notes for Boys’, The Argus, 23 February, p5. For further discussion of the role of nature study in military preparedness, see Grant Rodwell, 1997, ‘Nature Enthusiasm, Social Planning and Eugenics in Australian State Schools, 1900–1920’, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 29, pp5–6. ‘Boys, in nature, . . .’ Tom Griffiths, 1989, ‘‘The natural history of Melbourne’: The culture of nature writing in Victoria, 1880–1945’, Australian Historical Studies, 23, p357. ‘I trod the . . .’ Eve Langley, 1942, The Pea Pickers (Angus and Robertson: Sydney) p169. p338 ‘a special appeal . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1929. ‘Some social insects: A caterpillar company–defensive tactics’ The Age, 30 December, p10. ‘Had the early . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1942. ‘Color from the herb garden: Dyeing with woad’, The Age, 20 June, p7. p339 ‘We are twelve . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1940, ‘The Call for Flax: Opportunity for Hobby and Service – Garden Plots’, The Age, 6 July, p9. ‘The fine health . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1943, ‘Greens for good health: War-time vitamins’, The Age, 11 September, p7. ‘Sunny Australia! There . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1943, Come back in wattle time: an illustrated handbook to our Australian wattles (Robertson and Mullens: Melbourne). p340 ‘a dashing suit . . .’ ‘Outre Costumes’, Woman’s Realm, The Australasian, 4 January 1930, p12. pp341–42 The anecdote and quotes about the Preston Distillery is from Kate Baker, 1942, pp20–22. pp343–345 ‘The cottage was . . .’ and ‘The four-roomed . . .’ and ‘The sight that . . .’ Ethel F. L. Richardson [Henry Handel Richardson] 1910/2013, The Getting of Wisdom (Australian Classics: Melbourne) pp202 and 204–205. ‘the only other . . .’ Jack Ritchie, 1966, ‘Back Beach – Blairgowrie (Konnya to the Divide)’, Blairgowrie: Some Blairgowrie History, http://rosevilleblairgowrie.blogspot. com.au/2009/11/back-beach-blairgowrie-koonya-to-divide.html [accessed 28.2.2017]. p345 ‘For sheer beauty . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1945, ‘Sea life at Sorrento’, Victorian Naturalist, 62, p87. ‘hidden bands of . . .’ from Acripeza reticulata Guerin-Meneville, 1838, ‘Species profile – biology’, Atlas of Living Australia, http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0cb8376f-3642-4221-8473-27a5cb1a2c2b [accessed 1.3.2017]. Edith Coleman, 1938. ‘New notes on the Australian Mountain Grasshopper (Acridopeza reticulata)’, Victorian Naturalist, 55, pp24–32. William E. Agar, 1939, ‘A Gynandromorph Grasshopper’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Zoology A, 109, pp139–140. See also Edith Coleman, 1938, ‘Further notes on the Mountain Grasshopper Acridopeza reticulata Guerin’, 55, pp119–122. p347 ‘Foul whis’prings are . . .’ William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, scene 1. Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1942, ‘The cup that cheers: Substitutes from the herb garden–American women show the way’, The Age, 2 May, p7. p348 ‘Thorough general wanted . . .’ Casual Advertisements, Reporter (Box Hill) 27 October 1911, p7. p349 ‘I milked my . . .’ letter from Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands, 25 February 1932, Rica Erickson Papers, SLWA. ‘We have never . . .’ and ‘It is Dorothy’s . . .’ and ‘I told you . . .’ letter from Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands, 12 November 1931, SLWA. p350 ‘In order to . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1948, ‘Bird bogeys’, Victorian Naturalist, 65, p 137. Boletus portentosus is now known as Plebopus marginatus. p353 ‘It’s a plant . . .’ Kylie Tennant, 1941, The Battlers (Victor Gollancz: London) quoted in Alec H. Chisholm, 1964, Land of Wonder: The Best Australian Nature Writing (Angus and Robertson: Sydney) p76. ‘One might think . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1929, ‘Across the continent to Perth: Impression of colour and vast distances’, The Argus, 23 November, p10. ‘A weed is . . .’ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1880, Fortune of the Republic: Lecture delivered at the Old South Church, 30 March 1878 (Houghton, Osgood and Co: Boston) p3. p354 ‘We are now . . .’ Ellen Clacy, 1853, A Lady’s visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia (Hurst and Blackett: London; reprinted by Sydney University Press, 2004) p27. ‘We rather like . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1928. ‘Blackburn bird notes’, Victorian Naturalist, 44, p299. ‘A plant is . . .’ Coleman, Edith [E.C.] 1940, ‘Plea for an alien weed: Teasel has a past and a future’, The Age, 17 August, p8. ‘gossamer of tenderest . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1930, ‘Wind in the willows: Nature’s Æolian harps’, The Argus, 14 June, p3. p357 ‘Every Australian would . . .’ Edith Coleman, Come back in wattle time. p359 The history of Avenues of Honour from ‘Honour Avenues’, Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/kings-park/visit/history/honour-avenues, last updated 17 November 2016 [accessed 22.2.2017]. p360 ‘I nurtured my . . .’ Mrs Matsuo wrote this poem to commemorate her son’s death in the midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour on 31 May–1 June 1942. [This translation was provided by the Australia-Japan Research Project at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra] http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/underattack/ [accessed 6.6.17] pp361–362 Extract from Edith Coleman, 1930, ‘Flowers of the eucalypt: A source of national pride’, The Argus, 3 October, p4.
Chapter 14: Winter visitors to a Blairgowrie cottage
p363 ‘On the clear . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1929, ‘A garden wilderness: Old fashioned favourites and familiar friends’, The Argus, 3 August, p3. p365 This reconstruction is based on the recollections of John and Peter Thomson. p366 ‘a slight deafness . . .’ Rica Erickson, ‘A thumbnail sketch of Edith Coleman, 1931–32’, FNCV archives [unpublished manuscript]. Heather Taylor Johnson, 2013, Pursuing Love and Death (Fourth Estate: Sydney) and Heather Taylor Johnson (ed) 2017, Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain (University of Western Australia Publishing: Perth). p368 ‘long walks and . . .’ Edith Coleman to Editor, ‘Fauna and Flora Protection’, The Age, 5 August 1933, p6. pp368–369 ‘that I was . . .’ and ‘Here was the . . .’ Richard Jefferies, 1948, ‘The Season and the Stars’, The Old House at Coate (Harvard University Press: Cambridge) pp34–5. p371–373 All quotes from letters by Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands. ‘At present I’m . . .’ 31 December 1931, ‘Please forgive pencil . . .’ 5 December 1931, ‘We are here . . .’, ‘We are camped . . .’ and ‘Just recently I . . .’ 7 January 1932, Rica Erickson Papers, SLWA. p373 ‘Mrs Edith Coleman’s . . .’ Victorian Naturalist, 1950, 67, p69. ‘The FNCV noted . . .’ James H. Willis, 1950, ‘First lady recipient of Natural History Medallion–Mrs. Edith Coleman’, Victorian Naturalist, 67, pp99–100. p374 J. Ros Garnet, 1950, ‘The Australian Natural History Medallion: A survey of the first decade’, Victorian Naturalist, 67, pp93–97. ‘Her own amazing . . .’ Willis, 1950, pp99–100. ‘An excellent supper . . .’ from the ‘August meeting minutes’ 1950, Victorian Naturalist, 67, p62. p377 Recent review of mimicry in Australia in Marie E. Herberstein, Heather J. Baldwin and Anne C. Gaskett, 2014, ‘Deception down under: is Australia a hot spot for deception?’ Behavioral Ecology, 25, pp12–16. ‘Here at my . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1949, ‘Menace of the Mistletoe’ Victorian Naturalist, 66, p24. p378 ‘In flowering times . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1950, ‘Planting Mistletoe seeds: Unorthodox methods’, Emu 50, p264. Details of Oakes Ames funeral in a letter from Albert F. Hill to Edith Coleman, 17 May 1950, John Thomson collection. ‘You are understanding . . .’ letter from Blanche Ames to Edith Coleman, 17 December 1950, John Thomson collection. ‘Last winter my . . .’ letter from Oakes Ames to Edith Coleman, 29 November 1948, John Thomson collection. p379 ‘The garden darkens . . .’ Dorothy Hewett, 1994, ‘The Last Peninsula: 5. The Garden Darkens’, Peninsula (Frema
ntle Arts Press: Fremantle). p380 ‘Just as this . . .’ Victorian Naturalist, 1951, 68, p26. pp380–381 ‘There is no . . .’ Jean Galbraith, 1951, ‘Edith Coleman: A personal appreciation’, Victorian Naturalist, 68, p46. p381 ‘I had a . . .’ H. Montague R. Rupp quoted in Lionel Gilbert, 1992, The Orchid Man: The life, work and memoirs of the Rev. H. M. R. Rupp, 1872–1956 (Kangaroo Press: Kenthurst) p99. ‘She will be . . .’ H. Montague R. Rupp, 1951, ‘In memorium– Edith Coleman’, Australian Orchid Review, December, p122. p382 Thomas S. Eliot, 1921, ‘Tradition and the individual poet’, The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (Alfred Knopf: New York) p44. ‘That her full . . .’ Mary Ann Evans [George Eliot] 1871/1985, Middlemarch (Penguin Classics: Harmondsworth) p896. p383 ‘We nature lovers . . .’ ‘The Blackbird’s Song is in her blood’, The Age, 15 April 1950, p5. pp385–386 by Edith Coleman, 1951, ‘Winter visitors to a Blairgowrie cottage’, Victorian Naturalist, 68, pp47–48.
Epilogue
p383 ‘Like most nature-lovers . . .’ from Edith Coleman, ‘Memorable Occurrences among Budgerigars.’ Victorian Naturalist, 1947, 64, p97. p390 ‘As I sit . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1924, ‘Birds at Blackburn’, The Age, 29 March, p26.
Index of names
Ackermann, Jessie 324
Agar, Wilfred 314, 315, 345, 347
Allen, Grant 258, 259
Alliston, Eleanor 100, 101
Ames, Blanche 100, 195, 378
Ames, Oakes 100, 166, 194–197, 378
Anderson, James W. 64, 77, 78
Arnold, Mavis 160
Babbage, Charles 314
Bacon, Francis 34–36, 245
Baden-Powell, Robert 312, 336
Bailey, Liberty Hyde 73
Baker, Kate 31, 72, 198, 222, 224, 229, 240, 246, 303–307, 341
Banfield, Edward 100
Banfield, Bertha 100
Barak, William 272
Barnard, Francis G. 166
Barrett, Charles 304, 405n
Barrie, James M. 20, 132, 248, 371
Bass, George 385
Bateman, W. H. 21, 22
Battarbee, Rex 285
Bazerman, Charles 253
Beebe, William 261
Bell, Diane 276
Bellamy, Edward 105, 248
Blackmore, Richard 247
Bouverie, Frances Charlotte 22
Bright, Anna-Maria 50
Browning, Robert 149, 167, 246
Bryant, Mrs E. 212, 223, 230
Buell, Lawrence 321, 322, 324
Burns, Robert 247
Cambridge, Ada 53, 82, 307
de Candolle, Augustin 313
Cannon, Michael 56
Chase, Athol 276
Chisholm, Alexander Hugh (Alec) 125, 166, 175, 243, 308, 322, 374
Church, Fran 224
Clacy, Ellen 354
Coleman, Dorothy xi, 5, 22, 94, 96, 102, 117, 121, 127–133 passim, 136, 137, 146, 148, 159, 160, 180, 210, 211, 221, 225, 237, 238, 269–271, 283–289, 292–295, 311, 316–318, 320, 325, 326, 335, 341–343, 345, 349, 350, 368, 370–374, 375, 376, 379, 381
Coleman, Gladys xi, 5, 27, 94, 96, 107, 117, 121, 129, 130, 132, 133, 136, 137, 146, 148, 159, 160, 210, 269, 270, 275–283, 290, 311, 316, 317, 320, 325, 326, 328, 367, 370
Coleman, James xi, 4, 84, 91–93, 94, 96–102, 104, 106–109, 120, 121, 125, 127, 146, 155, 157, 210, 211, 303, 304, 318, 335, 336, 341, 343, 349, 371, 372
Comstock, Anna 147
Conrad, Joseph 247
Correvon, Henry 183, 184, 191
Crisp, Louise 256
Croll, Bob 271, 283
Cronon, William 308
Crosbie Morrison, Philip 166, 374
Cross, Agnes 132, 133
Darwin, Charles 5, 181, 182, 185, 187, 197, 258, 316
Davis, Lizzie 272
Dawson, John 74
Day, Syd 92, 99, 101
Deamer, Dulcie 129
Dennis, Clarence M. J. S. (C. J.) 247, 307
Dickens, Charles 20, 53, 66
Dillard, Annie 100, 308
Dodgson, Charles (Lewis Carroll) 20, 31, 32
Donnelly, Hannah 273
Double, Susan 187
Drake-Brockman, Henrietta 285
Duncan, Roy 305
Durack, Elizabeth 289
Eaves, Ethel 161, 176
Evans, Mary Anne (George Eliot) 382
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (T. S.) 382
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 15, 30, 238, 245, 248, 321, 323, 353, 371
Edmunds, George 26
Edmunds, Maria Kaye 26
Edmunds, Richard 26
Endersby, Jim 258
Erickson, Dorothy 226
Erickson, Rica (Rica Sandilands) 10, 31, 53, 129, 166, 212, 213, 216, 217, 224–226, 228, 240, 278, 279, 349, 350, 371
Ewart, Alfred 160, 314, 326
Exeter, Frank 70
Faraday, Michael 253, 313
Fenton, Elizabeth 50, 51
Foster, Alfred 307
Franklin, Stella Miles (Miles) 303–306, 308
Fraser, John 48–49
Furphy, Joseph 31, 303–307
Galbraith, Jean 7, 10, 79, 81, 147, 159, 166, 380, 381
Galsworthy, John 247
Gamble, William M. 68–70, 84
Goadby, Bede Theodore 100, 178, 212, 213, 216
Goadby, Mary Emma 100, 212, 213, 216
Godfery, Hilda 183
Godfery, Masters Johnson 182–187, 191, 194–197, 217
Gordon, Adam Lindsay 247
Green, T. G. 161
Griffiths, Tom 337
Guerin, Bella 155, 158
Gunn, Jeannie 287, 288, Harms, Annie Maria x, 20, 33, 45,
Harms, George Edmunds xi, 19, 20, 22, 32–34, 43–46, 51, 53, 67, 69, 349
Harms, Harriett x, 19–21, 28, 32, 33, 36, 44, 45, 53
Harms, Harry x, 20, 22, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 44, 45, 53, 54, 70, 94, 121, 133, 134, 216, 220
Harms, Henry x, 22, 24–26, 28, 30–32, 33, 36, 44, 48, 49, 67, 75, 94, 121, 133, 134, 158, 216, 220
Harms, Hervey Arthur xi, 19, 20, 32, 33, 44, 45, 216, 220
Harms, Ivo 22, 53, 94, 216
Harms, Lottie (Charlotte Bowman) x, 20, 28, 33, 45, 70, 401n
Harms, Lottie (Charlotte Sarah Edmunds) xi, 20, 24, 26, 28, 33, 45, 94, 133, 134
Harms, Peter x, 22, 242
Henry, Alice 307
Hewett, Dorothy 379
Hill, Ernestine 285
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 247, 383
Hood, Thomas 28
Horner, Mary 316
Huxley, Aldous 244, 253
Huxley, Thomas Henry 258
Johnson, Heather Taylor 366–368
Kennedy, Flo 276
Kingsley, Henry 53
Kipling, Rudyard 55, 125, 246, 247
Lamb, Charles 53, 247
Lamott, Anne 249
Langley, Eve 337
Laplace, Pierre-Simon 185
Lawson, Henry 305
Lea, Arthur 185, 190, 192, 193
Lindsay family 269, 283, 307
Long, Charles 64, 71
Lovelace, Ada 314
Lyell, Charles 316
James, Harry 92, 101, 104
Jefferies, Richard 30, 43, 147, 245, 246, 248, 368, 369, 371
Mack, Amy 130, 226, 227
Maeterlinck, Maurice 247
Marcet, Jane 313
Mason, Mary Anne 82
Mauk, Catherine 274, 275
McCubbin, Frederick 117, 118, 120
Macdonald, Donald 100, 135, 136, 166, 311, 312, 336–338
McLennan, Ethel 132, 314, 315
Menzies, Margaret 51
Meyer, Lois 283, 284
Mickle, Alan 95