Local WildflowersLocal Wildflowers - Part of a series of 14 commissioned for Keilor City CouncilAR0006Details of the plant on the back of the painting

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 wrapped in plastic.beauglehole herbarium, herbarium specimen, botany, herbarium, plant science, plant specimen, field naturalists' club ballarat, federation university herbarium, brunonia australis, blue pincushion, goodeniaceae

Colour photograph of blue pincushions, Wild Dog Creek Road, St Andrewspincushions, brunonia australis, st andrews, wild dog creek road, wildflowers

Set comprises round needlecase, made of hexagons. Pincushion and emery cushion, also of hexagons, in a blue and white floral fabric and plain blue fabric. Pincushion is edged in blue velvet ribbon finished with a bow and a loop. textiles, small articles, patchwork, australia, 1980-2000

The donor's grandparents, Matha and John Lishman, migrated to Australia from Hexham, Northumberland immediately after their marriage in 1887 and the shoe was sent by a family member to her grandmother, in anticipation of the arrival of their first child, my uncle Thomas. At the time they lived in a house which they called "Hexham" in Salisbury Grove, Hawthorn.Blue satin shoe with pincushion which was made for a new baby. Cushion separate. Centrally placed curved handle edged with darker blue cord. Pleated ribbon around cushion and top edge of shoe. Four ribbon bows, pins, large pins and safety pins.Front : "Send Darling Baby - Mary or Thomas ? O'wert or Ewert Hexham" Back "Innocence 1888"pin cushions, england, late 19th century