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with Flowering Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera 'Nigra').  A variation on this approach was to use a conifer, such as a cypress, cedar or pine, as the major planting.  In some instances a Kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus) was used as the smaller tree.[55]
Weston planted parks and reserves in a less formal manner.  The style of planting employed in these reserves followed the Garden City style and was a notable departure from Griffin's intentions for the city.[56]  In this regard. Weston is likely to have been influenced by John Sulman (1849-1934), an architect who was prominent in shaping ideas on town planning in Australia during the period leading to Canberra's inception.  He served as chairman of the FCAC from 1921 to 1924.  As noted by the late landscape architect Peter Harrison, author of Walter Burley Griffin: Landscape Architect (1995) Sulman, 'required that Griffin's conception of the capital as a city of monumental buildings be modified, that it should be regarded in the early period of its existence more as a Garden Town, the erection of the permanent buildings being deferred … until economic conditions might be more favourable'.[57]

2.5                    West Block, 1927-38
The first departments transferred from Melbourne to West Block were the Prime Minister's Department, the Department of Home and Territories, the Department of the Treasury, the Attorney General's Department and the Official Secretary to the Governor-General (Figure 17).  The National Library was accommodated in A Block, at the north end of the building.[58]  The inclusion of office space for the Prime Minister's Department was due to the distance of Yarralumla House from Canberra's administrative centre.
Although the first Cabinet meeting in Canberra was held at Yarralumla on 30 January 1924, the first Cabinet meetings after the Provisional Parliament House was opened in May 1927 were held in West Block.[59]  The use of West Block for Cabinet meetings outside sitting weeks – when the Cabinet Room in Parliament House was used for its convenient location adjacent to the Prime Minister's office – persisted until 1932, when the Lyons' Government transferred it permanently.[60]  The location of the space at West Block that hosted Cabinet meetings between 1928 and 1932 is not annotated on historic drawings and has not been identified during research for this HMP.
The relocation of the National Library from Melbourne to Canberra coincided with the transfer of Parliament to the Provisional Parliament House.  The first incarnation of the national library was the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library in 1902, which was attached to the Victorian Parliamentary Library in Melbourne.[61]  The Victorian parliamentary librarian acted as a 'librarian on loan' to the Commonwealth government until the library was relocated to Canberra in 1927.[62]
From 1927 to 1936 the National Library was housed