cabbage garden

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

a name applied to the colony of Victoria by Sir John Robertson, the Premier of New South Wales,in contempt for its size.


1889. Rev. J. H. Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p. 30:

«`The cabbage garden,' old cynical Sir John Robertson, of NewSouth Wales, once called Victoria, but a gardennotwithstanding. Better at any rate `the cabbage garden' thanthe mere sheep run or cattle paddock.»

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