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Williams (1858-1928), John
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Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
Queensland
Australia
2002 Richard Aitken & Michael Looker Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
p644. John Williams (1858-1928), was born in Wales.... He arrived in Sydney in 1879, working under Charles Moore at Sydney Botanic Gardens (and alongside James Pink). He attracted the attention of William MacArthur and c1880 was in charge of the hothouses at Camden Park. Pink moved to take charge at Brisbane Botanic Gardens and in 1881 he appointed his friend Williams as propagator, a position of considerable importance In an experimental phase of tropical horticulture in Q’ld. By 1889 he had established a nursery at Mount Cotton and in 1896 he commenced the Broadwater Nursery, Mount Gravatt specialising in citrus trees and roses.
His rose ‘Penelope’ was awarded a Royal Horticultural Society certicate (1906), the first Australian-bred rose to obtain such a valued distinction, although due to marketing difficulties in Europe his cultivar was released by others before he could profit. The rose ‘Star of Queensland’ was another of his introductions. Williams later established his nursery at Sunnybank.
 
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