the smallest street, now hackett terrace, was formerly named sun street, the name deriving from hackett's nursery, a family concern created by brothers elisha and walter hackett in the 1850s. elisha hackett cultivated the garden of his house in sydenham road, creating the nursery, and in 1854 persuaded his brother walter, who had gone to victoria in 1851, to join him in business. walter, after his marriage, built a house in marryatville designed by architect george abbott in about 1866. the plot was bought from brunskill, and was described as a long strip of land, formerly part of a paddock used as a shortcut by burnside people going to st matthew's church. there were several wells, and the property had to be locked against bushrangers, who were active in the area. walter first planted fruit trees, but as the nursery grew, the fruit trees were removed. more than 100,000 roses as well as shrubs and trees were grown and sold; there were also glasshouses to house begonias, maiden-hair ferns and other house plants, and a shadehouse for palms, tree ferns and staghorns. native plants were cultivated with care. walter's sons, first john and then william, lived in the house after their father moved to brighton, but walter travelled up each day to work in the nursery until his death in 1914.