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Monday, September 30, 2013

The East Talgai Plant Ledger, a brief analysis




East Talgai from the West
Courtyard Rose Talgai Homestead
The East Talgai Plant Ledger, a brief analysis
Kyleigh and Michael Simpson sept 2013
East Talgai and the Clarks
In 1868 George John Clark commissioned architect Richard Sutor to design and build Talgai Homestead. The large building with wide verandahs was of sandstone quarried locally with 6 chimneys and shingle roof. The stone cottage with its cellar may have been built for the Clarks to occupy until the homestead was completed. The original avenue of Bunya Pines from 1869 lines the first entry road (over Dalrymple Creek)

From 1869 the English style garden was developed with a prodigous amount of palnt material, probably sought by mail order. George and Ellen Clark were musicians and entertained at Talgai which was also the venue for charity fetes and garden parties.  Mrs Clark won prizes for her flowers at agricultural shows.

Enormous lists, numbered and detailed in the Talgai plant ledger show Roses, Camellias, Chrysanthemums, Conifers, ornamental shrubs of all kinds had been collected. Scroll Down for a transcription of the Roses in the Talgai Plant Ledger 1869-1925.
Further the plant ledger also has long lists of different varieties of Grape Vine, Apples, Apricots, Peaches, Medlar, Quince and other productive plants.
The Clarks designed a watering system which drew water from Dalrymple Creek.

The evolving plant ledger is a fascinating document. Very little of the evolving garden from the 19th and early 20th century remains.
Early Sources of the plants at Talgai include Michael Guilfoyles nursery Sydney, Shepherds Nursery Sydney, "Cribb" explored below.
Later references are made to acquiring roses through Brunnings in Victoria and Summerlin Nursery Brisbane.George John Edwin Clark. (1834-1907) born at Ellinthorpe Hall in Tasmania.
In 1863 George married Ellen Louisa Henrietta Smith, daughter of an English paper manufacturer of Fiume on the Adriatic coast. He then visited leading sheep studs on the Continent and stations in New Zealand before he went to Queensland with his wife in 1865.
 After Ellinthorp Hall in Tasmania was sold to Samuel Page, brothers Charles and George in partnership bought the Old Talgai station on the Darling Downs in 1868 and began to consolidate its leases into freehold. George, a 'marvel with sheep', built up their flock by breeding first from the Learmonth and Shaw studs in Victoria and later from the Kermode and Taylor studs in Tasmania. Although his average fleece weighed only 3½ lbs. (1.6 kg) in 1868, he could claim an average of 7½ lbs. (3.4 kg) in 1886, when some of his stud rams were selling for over £400 at the Sydney sheep fair, and others were being exported to Tasmania. He is also credited with introducing the paddock system on the Darling Downs.
George helped to found the Warwick Examiner and Times in 1867 and represented Warwick in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1867-68. He claimed to be 'a moderate liberal' but was highly suspected by townsmen and smallholders for his evasions of the Land Acts. As a member of the court for revising electoral rolls he was said to have deliberately disfranchised many selectors around Warwick, thus displaying 'a disgraceful elasticity of conscience in dealing with public matters which were likely to infringe on his private interest'. He contested the Warwick seat in 1870 but narrowly lost. Although he had seldom spoken in debates he found the strain of politics immense, the expense high and the rewards slight. He was glad to retire to his sheepbreeding and the solace of his violin. He also withdrew from the conventional respectability of the Church of England and became a priest of the Catholic Apostolic (Irvingite) Church, fitting up a room at Talgai as a private chapel. In 1890 financial pressures forced him and Charles to sell 24,250 acres (9814 ha) of East Talgai to the Scottish Investment Co. for 34s. an acre (0.4 ha), leaving George with 9000 acres (3642 ha) and the homestead. When he died on 6 February 1907, his assets were valued at more than £40,000. When George Clark died the property passed to his son George Carr Clark  (b.1864- 1942), who also became a Catholic Apostolic priest. In 1907 George Carr Clark sold-off 5000 acres of Talgai and purchased 'Yanna' station on the Warrego. About 2000 special stud ewes remained at Talgai and the stud sires were bred there and transferred to Yanna for fattening. Aberdeen Angus stud cattle were introduced to Talgai in 1916 and ultimately became the main business of Talgai. In 1934 both the cattle and the sheep studs were sold at public auction, leaving about 750 acres on the homestead block around East Talgai house.
George Carr Clark resided there with his wife and various family members until his death in 1942.


Many of the roses in the East Talgai ledger are annotated "Cribb". Because of clear associations with Grape vine Cultivars imported from the USA by John Cribb (Qld. Acclimatization Society) and found on the Talgai list, it seems certain that he is the source. So far I am unable to find a rose list but there are references to the acclimatization activities of John George Cribb throughout early newspapers and Journals. John George was the son of Robert Cribb 
 Robert Cribb , his wife, four of their five children and three relations arrived on 20 January 1849 in the first Lang ship, Fortitude. Benjamin, with his wife and three children and Robert's daughter Mary, reached Moreton Bay four months later in the second Lang ship, Chaseley.
Robert settled in Brisbane where he had a bakery for about six years but later acquired extensive land holdings in and around Brisbane through his commission and land agency.
At 55, after his wife died, he married Sarah Walton. He died at his home in Milton on 16 April 1893, survived by three children of his first marriage.
Cribbs in Milton. The eccentric ‘Dunmore’ was built by Robert Cribb close to the intersection of Coronation Drive and Lang Parade, land that is now occupied by an office building. The name of the house was a nod to John Dunmore Lang, whose efforts to import upstanding immigrants from the motherland had brought Robert Cribb to Brisbane in 1851. Cribb’s Dunmore Estate spanned all the way back to Milton Road and along the river from Western Creek to what is now Chasely Street.  John George also lived in Milton and it would appear that plant importation, acclimatization and distribution happened via his gardens at Milton.
John George Cribb was an active member of the Queensland acclimatization society.
Roberts brother (uncle of J.G Cribb) business man of Ipswich, eventually founding Cribb & Foote. I can't find evidence that "Cribb and Foote" were involved in the plant material acquired at Talgai. The name "Cribb" appears to refer to John George Cribb.
John George Cribb (son of Robert Cribb and Sarah Sansom) was born 12 Apr 1830 in Poole, Dorset, England, and died 10 Jun 1905 in Fairholme, Milton, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He married Lucy Foote on 12 Jun 1856 in Kingholme, Teneriffe, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Cribb Island received its name from J.G. Cribb, the son of Brisbane Council Alderman, Robert Cribb. 150 acres (0.61 km2) of land was bought from the Queensland Government in 1863. In 1885, Cribb sold 65 of those acres to James Jackson for the purpose of growing bananas. This area became known as Jackson's Estate. The land that wasn't used by Jackson was leased out to livestock farmers.

The hand written inventory was not always easily read or translatable.
Copies have been given to Heritage Roses in Australia, Darling Downs Branch to help with corrections.
Talgai Rose Inventory 1869-1925  * notates that the rose has been crossed out
Inventory starts 1869
17
Lady Alice Peel
Shepo,   ...... double good?

18
Saffrano
Free bloomer, sort of apricot. Best as bud

19
Duchess of Norfolk
........much

20
Lord Raglan*


21
Madame Boll
good large pink

22
Celine Forester
pretty yellowish-white,full well shaped

23
Madame Furtado*


24
General Jacqueminot
Rich crimson,not very full sweet scented.

25
Solfaterre
Cribb, O S yellowish,white large and sweet scented

26
Mareschal Neil*
Cribb

27
Prince Camille de Rohan
Beautiful dark crimson

28
Marshall Souchet
Very deep rose colour good

29
General Washington 
Not so good crimson

30
Lord Mcauley
Beautiful crimson ,very large, full sweet scented

31
Lord Raglan*


32
Jules Margottin


33
Madame*
Cribb

34
Professor Kick *
Cribb

35
Catherine Guillot*
Cribb

36
/ Notting*
Cribb

37
Elizabeth Vigneron
Cribb

38
John Hopper
Cribb , beautiful rose colour ,full well shaped very sweet scented

39
Madame Laffray
Guilfoil

40
Ransome Prevosr
Guilfoil Deep pink rose, full shaped. Do well as standard

41
Roque*
Guilfoil

42
Prince of Wales*
Cribb

43
Elizabeth Vigernon*
Cribb

44
William Lobb
No good, moss rose

45
Princesse Adelaide *


46
Baronne de Margottin*


47
Louis Margottin
good,very small pink ....

48
Souvenir de Malmaison
Pinkish white rose,large well shaped

49
Saffranot


50
Jean Cherfine
very dark ,s very good

51
Victor Verdier*


52
Madame  Schmidt*


53
Duc d"Amale
good

54
Gloire de Dijon
very large rose,pinkish,yellow inside

55
Madame Charles Woodward.*
July 1881outer  petals white good standard

26
Mareschal Neil Shpo
Beautiful  Salmon .................?

31
Grace Archer
Beautiful crimson,sweet scents

32
Queen of Waltham
Deep rose

33
Princess Beatrice
Well ..... full apricot

34
Magna Charta
Pink full

35
Firebrand
Very full

36
Madamoiselle Bouvaire


37
Countess de Orford


41
Duke of Edinburgh


118
Black Prince
Very good

42
Mme Victor Verdier


43
Captain Christy
? white blush centre, very good

45
Coquette des Blanches
very pretty full white rose

46
Peach Blossom
Do not care much about it.

51
Francis Trieves
very full crimson would have to open well

52
Rev JBL Lawers?
Pink  full

55
Queen Eleanor


58
Diane
Pink full

117
Mme Marie Rady
Light crimson, sweet scented

60
Star of Waltham
Well shaped ,light crimson

61
Boule de Neige
Deaver

63
Louis van Houtte
dark ,handsome rose

64
Madame Berrard
Apricot,best as bud

65
Antoinne Ducher
Dark pink

111
Abbe Bramerel
Large dark ...flat rose

85
Alfred Colomb
light rose crimson sweet scented

112
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Good ,very light crimson

66
Fisher Holmes
Beautiful velvet crimson

68
Madame La B de
Rothschild
light pink very good

13
Cloth of gold
very good

116
Prince Eugene Beauharnais
very sweet scented

69
Charles Lefebvre


120
Reynolds Hole
Dark velvet crimsonlike F Holmes


Niphetos??


70
Duchess of Bedford
July1884 Shep & Stewarts    1884 roses

71
Pride of Waltham


72
A K Williams


73
Madame Massop


74
Marie van Houtte


76
Mabel Morrison


77
W H Turner


78
Reine Marie Heuriette


79
W Allan Richardson


80
La Marque


81
Climbing Amy Vibert


82
Climbing Victor Verdier


83
Lord Beaconsfield


84
Dr Andre


87
Harrison Heir


88
Mrs H  Turner


90
William Allen Richardson


91
Countess of Rosenberg


92
John Bright


93
Duc de Montperier?


94
Jean Rosenkrauz


96
Marquis de Castellarni


97
Dean of Windsor


98
Prince Leopold


103
Marguerite Jami


104
Gabriel Fournier


122
Duchess de Caylus


123
Boieldieu


124
Madame de Girodde


125
Star of Waltham


126
Climbing Jules Margatin


127
Climbing Charles Lefeire


128
Dr Andre


129
Mademoiselle Annie Wood


130
Madam Jacquier


131
Olga Marie


132
Glory of Waltham


133
Monsieur Norman


134
Baron Chaurand


135
Mabel Morrison


136
Emily Sartou


137
Margriet de Liguiers


138
Mademoiselle Eugenie Verdier


139
Crown Prince


140
Marchioness of Exeter


141
Clark
1884 continued

142
Sir Garnet Wolseley


143
Paul Verdier


144
Baron Haussmann


145
Penelope Mays


146
Marguerite de Arnaud


147
Constantine Tretiakoff


148
Mrs Jowit


149
Dr Sewell


150
E Y Teace


151
Rev TC Cole


152
Pavillon de Prequy


153
Exposition de Brie


154
President
lovely as a bud in a wet season

155
Reine des Blauches


156
Abel Grand


157
Princess de Heigel
no good does not ..........

158
Princess Beatrice


159
Auguste Rigotard


160
Stadtholder


161
Madame Plantier


162
Motte Sanguinne


163
Ipswich Gem


164
Amadis


165
Princess Alice


166
Mrs Veilet


167
Amie Vibert


168
Souvenier  de Dr Cavour


169
Monsieur Cordier


170
General Simpson


171
La Sylphide


172
Dr Baillou


173
Catherine Bell


174
Anna Reluge


175
Charles Lawson


176
Devoniensis


177
Lady Emily Peel


178
Maria Leosisda?


179
Mrs Triffle


180
Reve D'Or
1884 continued

181
Richard Wallace


182
Pearle de Blanches


183
Mrs Covdier






73
Margaret Bennet*


74
Maurice Bernandiu*


75
Pierre Notting


76
R. Radcliffe*


77
William Griffiths*


78
Julius Caesar*


79
Madamme Boutin*


80
John Grier*


81
John Keynes*


82
Alba Rosea*


83
Madamme Baronne   de Rothschilde*


84
Madamoselle Ingram


85
Alfred Colomb
very good   crimson

86
Mervrille d Aujon


87
Margaret de St Arnaud*


88
Princess Mary of Cambridge *


89
Maria  Bowman.*


90
Leopold Hausburgh *
good full pink

91
Marcella


92
Belle*


93
Madamme Marie Ciroddi*


94
Alpaide de Rotalier*


95
Baron Lelliters de Killkelou ??
Magnificent deep red ,large well ... perfect

96
Charles Lefebvre*


97
Souvenir de WilliamWood*


98
Duke of Edinboro*


99
Leopold Second
? white

100
Princess of Wales


101
Le Geaut
no good

102
Duchess de Mornay
good very  small dark pink petals S

103
?


104
Comptesse de B??


105
Abbe Giraudier
large handsome bluish pink ,very full

106
Eliza roselle
Not S, White does not ?

107
Jean Guillot
No good, open floppy,not S

108
Madame Justour
When good-beautiful pink  like???

109
Paul Neroven
..............loose but very good

110
Souvenier de Baronne  Rothschild
Beautiful,wonderful bush rose

111
Abbe   Raimerel
Standars planted July 1877 good

112
Ferdinand de Lesseps
 ggod, very ? minature

113
Antonia Ducher
very good dark pink

114
La France
very large pink very good

115
Madame Berrard
good bush apricot colour

116
Maurice Eugene Beauharnais
good very

117
Madame Marie Rady
good,light crimson, sweet scented

118
Black Prince
Very good

119
Louis Van Houtte
?

120
Francois Treves
S does not open

121
Lou??
 not...good large loose

123
Felix Gevies
Shep July 29/81 Standard  Small well shaped full dark pink







 Scroll down for inventory 1893













































































Roses June 1893 At this time all the roses in the garden were renumbered and the old lists done away with.
1
John Stopper

2
Paul Neron

3
Souvenir de Baronne Rothschild

4
Mareschal Neil

5
Cloth of Gold

6
Captain Christie

7
Seline Forester

8
Lord Macauly

9
Abbe Bramarel

10
Marie Vanstonette

11
...de Wateville

12
Niphetos

13
Pearl des Jardins

14
President

15
A K Williams

16
Sinises??

17
Eclair

18
The Bride

19
Ma Capucine

20
Reynolds Hole

21
Grace Archer

22
Ulrich Brunner Filo

23
Mrs Inu Laing

24
Countess Berttia

25
Lady Helen Stewart

26
Prince C De Rohan

27
Duchess of Leeds

28
Glorie de Bonrg la Reine ?

29
Devoniensis

30
William Allan Richardson

31
Climbing Niphetos

32
Pink Rover

33
La Marque

34
Charles Lawson

35
General Jaqueminot

36
Pavillion de Pregny

38
Abel Grand

39
Souvenir de Malmaison

40
Crown Prince

41
Motte Sanguine

42
Reine des Blanches

43
Mabel Morrison

44
Paul Verdier

45
Exposition de Brie


46
Jean Rosencrantz

47
Souvenir de W Cavona

48
Ernest Bergmann

49
Madamoiselle Marie Rady

50
Jean Cherpin

51
W sewell

52
Climbing Amy Vibert

53
Glorie de dijon

54
Maria Leonida

55
Constantine Tretiakoff

56
Eliza Boelle

57
Madame ...

58
Fisher Holmes

59
Coquette des Blanches

60
General Simpson

61
Louis Margottin

62
...d'Aumale

63
Dr Andry

64
Baron Von Haussmann

65
Madame Jacquier

66
Queen of Waltham

67
Lady Astill

68
Felix Genero

69
Madame Victor Verdier

70
Madame Plantier

71
Rev JBC Cann

72
Madame Bosauquet

73
Antoine Ducher

74
Lyonaise

75
Princess Eugene Beauharnais

76
Pearle des Blanches

77
Madame Berrard

78
Denmark








"All former numbers and lists of roses done away and new roses put in top of garden and numbered June 1898
Half standards fr Brunning and Sons, Melbourne and Bush roses from Summerlin Brisbane."
1
Souvinier de......Joseph .....*

2
Maman Cochet

3
Grand Mogul

4
Wanmark

5
Earl of Dufferin??
best ? dark?
6
Captain Christy

7
Merverille de Lyon

8
Prince C de Rohan

9
Christine de Noel

10
Paul Nabonnard

11
Devoniensis

12
Mrs  ? Laing

13
Glorie de Dijon

14
Eugene Furst -
good dark
15
La France

16
Lady Helen Stevens
large,compact,blooms
17
AK Williams
good
18
Sunset
?
19
Queen of Queens

20
Glorie de L Expositions de Bruscelles
?
21
Marie Van stonette?

22
Marchioness Lorne
rather open
23
Alfred Colomb
good
24
Ulrich Brunner Fils

25
Princess de Bearn

26
Mrs G Sharman Crawford

27
Lord Macauley


Barely decipherable 1925 (jottings on page)
5
Safrano

2
Star of Wa (? Star of Waltham)

3
Maman Cochet

6
Marie Henette 19-3-25  ?

order
30 standards,20 bushes ,? for climbers





Roses 1901 Labelled 13-54 ? (page missing)
1901
28
Climbing Devoniensis*

29
Lady Castelragh

30
Pearle de Lyon

31
Mad  Chedane Guinovissenn
?Madame Clemence Joigneaux?

32
Duchess du Aucrasads

33
Sylph

34
Baron  Gaston Chandon

35
Dr Grill

36
Pink Rover

37
Madame Glorie de Magottin*

38
Ma Capucine

39
Improved Homer

40
Madame Lambard

41
Lorna Doone

42
Catherine Mermet

43
Reve d'Or

44
Crimson Rambler*

45
Charles de Legrady

46
Mons Desir

47
Shirley Hibberd

48
Climbing Kaiseran a Victoria

49
Climbing Berthe Siebrecht

50
Souvenir de Malmaison

51
Karserin Auguste Victoria

52
Belle Siebrecht

53
Mc Bride

54
Beaute Inconstante

13
Glorie

14
Eugene Furst
good dark
15
La France

16
Lady Helen Stevenson
large compact blooms
17
A K Williams
good
18
Sunset
?




19
Queen of Queens

20
Glorie de L 'Exposition de Bruscelles
?
21
Marie Van Houtte

22
Marchioness n Lorne
rather open
23
Alfred Colomb
good
24
Ulrich Brunner Filo

25
Princess de Bearn

26
Mrs Sharman Crawford

27
Lord Macaulay





Roses...???????


Comtess Caledon


Marion D..ugell


?


White Maman Cochet


Lady Mary Fitzwilliam.....


S de ............


Madame Louis.....


Aurora


La France 89


President


Roses in the garden 1913.
Reckoning from Bunyas and Path
Front line
Madame Vermerel?
Molly Sharman Crawford
Killarney
Captain Christy
Maman Cochet  Pink
""""""""""""""" White
Frau Karl Druscki
Mary Kenyon Stanby
Mrs Laing
Maman Cochet white
Madame Lambard
Back..line
Anna Oliver
Maman Cochet White
Frau Karl Druscki
Prince C de Rohan
La France
Sunset
Medea
Captain Christie
Sou de Pre Carnot
Kaiserein Augusta Victoria?

On wire netting Climbers Bardon Job, Fortunes Yellow, Marchall Neil 

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