Lynne Stone is a Victorian based textile artist specialising in botanical embroideries of Australian native flora. Lynne has used her technical skills to develop a software program for her sewing machine to automatically stitch some elements of her designs. Botanical model of Acacia Pycnantha "Golden Wattle" in flower with open flowers, flower buds and leaves. Embroidered using machine embroidery on an organza base. Wrapped wires and hand embroidered elements, hand coloured.australian native flora, flora

Cliff Beauglehole was an orchardist at Portland, Victoria, who throughout hislife took an intense interest in the plants of Victoria. Over his lifetime he collected 90,000 plant specimens as part of a comprehensive study of Victoria's plants and wrote thirteen books under the heading The Distribution and Conservation of Vascular Plants in Victoria, each written to cover the 13 study areas of the Victorian and Conservation Council.A mounted botanical specimen.beauglehole herbarium, herbarium specimen, botany, herbarium, plant science, plant specimen, field naturalists' club ballarat, federation university herbarium, acacia pycnantha, golden wattle, fabaceae

Collage of three Melbourne views: 1 - Golden Wattle flower - (Acacia Pycnantha) Australia National Floral Emblem. 2 - Collins St at Russell St with a W2 class tram in the view bound for Mont Albert route 42 3 - "Tullamarine Jetport Melbourne" with the airport terminal, Science Centre and the Travel Lodge hotel in the view. There are no domestic aircraft present in the photo and various works are still in hand. Therefore, this photo must be after the international section opened on the 1st July 1970, and before the move up from Essendon Aerodrome of the domestic operations on 20th June 1971. The Travelodge and Science Centre also opened in 1970. Postcard by Bellevue Color Views Australia No. BV117 Yields information the production of a postcard for visitors that featured a collage of three different views.Colour postcard with divided back, unused.Has a price of "50c" in pencil on rear.melbourne, airport, tullarmarine, wattle, collins st, russell st, route 42, w2 class, tramways, trams