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The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage Site located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ... The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets of the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... The City of Melbournes coat of arms Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 52,117 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area), and 3,488,750 in... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Governor HE Mr John Landy Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Area 237,629 km² (6th)  - Land 227,416 km²  - Water 10,213 km² (4. ... Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/Oceania. ...

The 26 hectares of gardens contain the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum and Imax Cinema, tennis courts and an award winning childrens playground. The rectangular site is bound by Victoria Street, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Street, and Nicholson Street. From the Exhibition building the gardens gently slope down to the southwest and northeast. According to the World Heritage listing: The Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens are of historical, architectural, aesthetic, social and scientific (botanical) significance to the State of Victoria. The Royal Exhibition Building, viewed from the west The Royal Exhbition Building, showing the fountain on the southern or Carlton Gardens side of the building The Royal Exhibition Building is located in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Melbourne Museum is located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. ... IMAX (for Image Maximum) is a film projection system which has the capacity to display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film display systems. ...

Horticulture

The gardens are an outstanding example of Victorian era horticulture with sweeping lawns and varied European and Australian tree plantings consisting of deciduous English oaks, White Poplar, Plane trees, Elms, Conifers, Cedars, Turkey Oaks, Araucarias and evergreens such as Moreton Bay Figs, combined with flower beds of annuals and shrubs. A network of tree lined paths provide formal avenues for highlighting the fountains and architecture of the Exhibition building. This includes the grand allee of plane trees that lead to the exhibition building. Two small ornamental lakes adorn the southern section of the park. The northern section contains the Museum, tennis courts, maintenaince depot and curator's cottage, and the children's playground designed as a Victorian maze. The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. ... Binomial name Quercus robur The Pedunculate Oak or English Oak (Quercus robur L.) is native to most of Europe, and to Asia Minor to the Caucasus, and also to parts of North Africa. ... Binomial name Populus alba The Abele or White Poplar (Populus alba) is an aberrant species of poplar, most closely related to the aspens (Populus sect. ... Species See text The genus Platanus is a small genus of six species of trees native to the Northern Hemisphere. ... Species See text. ... Orders & Families Cordaitales † Pinales   Pinaceae - Pine family   Araucariaceae - Araucaria family   Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family   Sciadopityaceae - Umbrella-pine family   Cupressaceae - Cypress family   Cephalotaxaceae - Plum-yew family   Taxaceae - Yew family Vojnovskyales † Voltziales † The conifers, division Pinophyta, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. ... For other uses, see Cedar (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Quercus cerris L. The Turkey Oak is a large deciduous oak tree native to southern Europe and Asia Minor. ... Species See text Araucaria ia a genus of conifers in the Monkey puzzle family Araucariaceae. ... Categories: Plant stubs | Australian plants | Magnoliopsida ...

The listing in the Victorian heritage says in part: The Carlton Gardens are of scientific (botanical) significance for their outstanding collection of plants, including conifers, palms, evergreen and deciduous trees, many of which have grown to an outstanding size and form. The elm avenues of Ulmus procera(English Elm) and Ulmus hollandica (Dutch Elm) are significant as few examples remain world wide due to Dutch elm disease. The Garden contains a rare specimen of Acmena ingens (an Australian Lillypilly), only five other specimens are known, an uncommon Harpephyllum caffrum and the largest recorded in Victoria, Taxodium distichum, and outstanding specimens of Chamaecyparis funebris and Ficus macrophylla, south west of the Royal Exhibition Building. Binomial name Ulmus procera English Elm (Ulmus procera) is a species of Elm tree. ... Dutch elm disease is a fungal disease of elm trees, originally native to Asia. ... Species Taxodium ascendens - Pond Cypress Conservation status: Secure Taxodium distichum - Bald Cypress Conservation status: Secure Taxodium mucronatum - Montezuma Cypress Conservation status: Data Deficient Taxodium is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae, one of several genera... Species Chamaecyparis formosensis Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Chamaecyparis obtusa Chamaecyparis pisifera Chamaecyparis taiwanensis Chamaecyparis thyoides The genus Chamaecyparis is one of several genera within the family Cupressaceae that have the common name cypress; for the others, see cypress (disambiguation). ... Species About 800, including: Ficus altissima Ficus americana Ficus aurea Ficus benghalensis - Indian Banyan Ficus benjamina - Weeping Fig Ficus broadwayi Ficus carica - Common Fig Ficus citrifolia Ficus drupacea Ficus elastica Ficus godeffroyi Ficus grenadensis Ficus hartii Ficus lyrata Ficus macbrideii Ficus microcarpa - Chinese Banyan Ficus nota Ficus obtusifolia Ficus palmata...

Wildlife includes possums, ducks and ducklings in spring, Tawny Frogmouths, and other urban environment birds. A possum is any of about 25 small to medium-sized arboreal marsupials native to Australia. ...

The gardens contain three important fountains: the Hochgurtel Fountain, designed for the 1880 Exhibition by sculptor Joseph Hochgurtel; the French Fountain; and the Westgarth Drinking Fountain. 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

History

• 1839 - Superintendent Charles La Trobe first planned the site as part of the green belt encircling Melbourne which included Batman's Hill, Flagstaff Gardens, Fitzroy Gardens, Treasury Gardens and the Domain.

• 1856 - Edward La Trobe Bateman designed the original layout of the ornamental gardens.

• 1870s - The gardens were redesigned for the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880 by the states leading landscape designers and horticulturalists including Clement Hodgkinson, William Sangster, Nicholas Bickford, and John Guilfoyle.

• 1880 - Exhibition Building completed for the Melbourne International Exhibition that year. Temporary annexes to house some of the exhibition in the northern section were demolished after the exhibition closed on 30 April 1881.

• 1888 - Melbourne Centennial Exhibition to celebrate a century of European settlement in Australia.

• 1891 - The curator's Lodge was completed and lived in by John Guilfoyle.

• 1901 - First Parliament of Australia opens in the Exhibition Building. The west annex of the Building becomes the site of the Victorian Parliament for the next 27 years.

• 1919 - buildings became an emergency hospital for influenza epidemic victims

• 1928 - Perimeter fence removed leaving the bluestone footings.

• Second World War the buildings were used by the RAAF.

• 1948 to 1961 - part of the complex was used as a migrant reception centre.

• 2001 - Taylor Cullity Lethlean with Mary Jeavons wins a landscape award for design and building a new childrens playground of elegant yet robust resolution. The Jury described the design as a distinctive and unified design that respects its historic setting and addresses the demands of creative play for spatial and visual variety.

• July 2004 - After several years of lobbying by the Melbourne City Council, The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, were inscribed on the World Heritage List at the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Suzhou, China.

The Exhibition Building is still used for exhibitions, including for the annual Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. The Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, opened in 1996 at Southbank, provides more modern facilities and has become Melbourn'e prime location for exhibitions and conventions. Charles La Trobe (March 20, 1801 - December 4, 1875) was the first lieutenant-governor of the state of Victoria. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Events and Trends Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) results in the collapse of the Second French Empire and in the formation of both the French Third Republic and the German Empire. ... Clement Hodgkinson, 1818 - 1893, was born in England, and became a notable Australian naturalist, explorer and surveyor. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years). ... Events January - April January 16-24 ? Siege of Geok Tepe ? Russian troops under general Skobeleff defeat Turkomans January 25 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company February 5 - Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated. ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... This article is about the continent. ... Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/Oceania. ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Parliament House, Canberra The Parliament of Australia is a bicameral parliament consisting of the Queen of Australia, the House of Representatives (the lower house) and the Senate (the upper house or house of review). Section 1 of the Constitution of Australia provides that: The legislative power of the Commonwealth shall... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first upside-down year - i. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre is located in Southbank to the south of the CBD. The Centre was built as a replacement for the Royal Exhibition Building and it consists of the Convention Centre and the Exhibition Centre, both were opened at diffenrent times. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... There is also a Southbank (of the Brisbane River) in Brisbane, Queensland, and a South Bank (of the River Thames) in London, United Kingdom. ...

References

• Melbourne City Council - Carlton Gardens (http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=25&pa=1273&pg=1282)
• World Heritage Listing (http://www.deh.gov.au/heritage/worldheritage/sites/royal/)
• Melbourne International Flower Show (http://www.melbflowershow.com.au/)
• Open Space and Recreation - Merit Carlton Gardens Playground (http://www.aila.org.au/victoria/awards2001/carlton.htm)

See also Royal Exhibition Building The Royal Exhibition Building, viewed from the west The Royal Exhbition Building, showing the fountain on the southern or Carlton Gardens side of the building The Royal Exhibition Building is located in Melbourne, Australia. ...