Story: Gardens

Selling melons and peaches, 1860s

These Māori men shelter from the sun as they wait for people to buy the fruit they have harvested, about 1860.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Urquhart Album (PA1-q-250)

Reference: PA1-q-250-26-2

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Maggy Wassilieff, Gardens – Māori gardens, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18858/selling-melons-and-peaches-1860s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.