by Corina Horstra Introduction Today, potatoes make up an important part of the Australian diet, but in the 1930s the potato was an even bigger part of what Australians were eating every day. So when potato yields started dropping dramatically in the 1940s, the...
by Joanne Priestley In the 1950s, the yields from strawberry fruit crops in Victoria were low and declining. To a large extent this was due to repetitive vegetative propagation of plants infected with viruses. [Note 1] In addition, many of the available varieties were...
by Joanne Priestley George Rimington arrived from England in 1871 and in 1877, established the Parkhill nursery in Kew, Melbourne. George, his five sons, and grandsons expanded the business over the years to include several other nursery sites to supply their retail...