Nobelius Heritage Park

off Crichton Road EMERALD, Cardinia Shire

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Nobelius Heritage Park

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Nobelius Heritage Park - Physical Description 1

    This planted area contains CA Nobelius and later nursery plantings on a hillside extending north from the Gembrook railway line and the Nobelius Siding, connecting to Emerald Lake Park via a tourist walk. It is as the most recognisable remnant of the once grand Gembrook Nurseries and has ornamental exotics planted in the Nobelius period and more recently by Gus Ryberg. Another section of the nursery lies in the former Emerald Lake Park which adjoins on the east, with native bush regeneration among the surviving specimens (see Emerald Lake Park).
    
    Planting includes cordylines, variegated tulip tree or `Liriondendron tulipifera', classified by the National Trust of Australia for its horticultural value and rarity; the Rewarewa or `Knightia excelsia', also classified for its rarity and size; the cut-leaf alder (`Alnus glutinosa' Lachiniata) classified by the National Trust of Australia as an outstanding example of its species and for its rarity, and a mulberry (`Morus sp.'). There are aslo the later Gus Ryberg plantings which have been consciously kept in rows as if still a nursery.
    
    Other early plantings include poplars from c1905; and Chinese gooseberry plants, being two of the original consignment by CA Nobelius. Also of note is the row of Chinese windmill palms (`Trachycarpus fortuneii') and other plantings formerly part of Nobelius Heritage Park and now within boundary fenceline of Emerald Lake Park.
    
    The Nobelius Heritage Museum has been recently erected within the park while the twolevel Nobelius Packing Shed and siding adjoin on the south as part of the narrow gauge railway which once transported the market garden, orchard and nursery produce to Melbourne and other markets.

    There is a plaque on the site listing the nurserymen who worked with Nobelius.
    
    More Descriptions can be found under National Trust of Australia Section

    Physical Conditions

    Nobelius Heritage Park - Physical Conditions

    Although this area still resembles a nursery it appears mainly symbolic of the former Nobelius occupation which is nevertheless represented by some residual plantings from the Nobelius pre 1920 era. This is a remnant of a much larger commercial nursery with introduced visually unrelated elements such as the museum building.
    
    

    Historical Australian Themes

    Nobelius Heritage Park - Historical Australian Themes

    Principal Australian Historical Theme - Engaging in Primary Production

    Historical Subtheme - Other primary industries (orchards, nurseries, market gardens)

    Physical Description 2

    Nobelius Heritage Park - Physical Description 2

    Associations - Gembrook Nursery; Nobelius, Carl Axel

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1998

    Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
    Year: 1998
    Grading: State

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