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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-10-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000078b.htm person Brunning George AACR2 1830 5 July 1893 Place of Birth Lowestoft, Suffolk, England Place of Death St Kilda, Victoria, Australia Nurseryman George Brunning trained as a gardener in Suffolk (UK) and arrived in Australia (Melbourne) in 1853. Initially he took up garden design and went to the Victorian goldfields. But after six unsuccessful months in Bendigo he moved on and became manager of John Rule's nursery (1854-1856). After that, Brunning went back to designing and planting gardens and then in 1860 he set up Brunning's nurseries in St Kilda. He was responsible or introducing the Waltham Cross grape and the South American pepper tree to Victoria and he developed the hedge plant Lambert's cypress, which sold well. In 1858 he wrote "Brunning's Australian Gardener". Adamson, William ( - 1874) 1874

George Brunning took over the management of William Adamson's nursery after William Adamson's death in 1874.

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 Brunning, George (1830-1893)

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 'Brunning, George', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Brunning, George Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Brunning, George (1830-1893), nurseryman Ericksen, R. F. Brunning, George (1830-1893), nurseryman Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1969 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C Douglas Pike 279-280