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300-year-old bread palm will be moved

- Argus (Cape Town, South Africa)

Bold man saves tree

- Babiana

Starting again with tree landmarks

- Babiana

  • Authors: Babiana
  • Date: 1972-09-06
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73084 , vital:30151
  • Description: Newspaper article: "This huge Moreton Bay wild fig tree in the Port Elizabeth Club grounds (the tree with the biggest spread in the city?) is no doubt one of the "nice lot of seedlings" raised from seed in 1882 by Mr John Wilson. Four were planted in the corners of Trinder Square when it was laid out as a garden in 1888. As the ohter Ficus macrophylla seedlings were distributed "far and wide," the great landmark trees at the corner of Main Road and 17th Avenue, Walmer, were probably from the same lot. (Macro-phylla means long-leafed of big-leafed.)"
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  • Date Issued: 1972-09-06

Crowd of 1 600 packs hall to hear Slabbert

- Barkhuizen, Dawn

The old and the new at Seymour

- Daily Dispatch (East London, South Africa)

  • Authors: Daily Dispatch (East London, South Africa)
  • Date: 1960-07-21
  • Subjects: Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs , Seymour (South Africa) -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65562 , vital:28813
  • Description: Newspaper article: "The old and the new at Seymour. This oak tree is believed to have been planted in 1853 on the founding of the town. Next to it stand newly planted poles to carry ESCOM electric power to the inhabitants. Gangs of construction workers are erecting the power lines and the first line in the town has about been completed. Private contractors are wiring dwellings. To start with there will be more than 20 consumers who will be connected up to the distribution lines. Distribution will be undertaken by ESCOM.”
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  • Date Issued: 1960-07-21

Fearless woman remembered

- Daily Dispatch (East London, South Africa)

  • Authors: Daily Dispatch (East London, South Africa)
  • Date: 1958-08-15
  • Subjects: South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878 , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71911 , vital:29974
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Fearless woman remembered. A beautiful monument in Grahamstown, shown in this picture above, was erected to commemorate an act of outstanding bravery by a woman during the battle of Grahamstown in 1819. She was Elizabeth Margaret Salt who, with her husband Sergeant Salt, was among those besieged in Fort England, which was surrounded by hordes of Kafirs.”
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  • Date Issued: 1958-08-15

Mr. Orpen's tree: a landmark that is older than E.L. Municipality

- Driffield, H H

  • Authors: Driffield, H H
  • Date: 1959-04-15
  • Subjects: Trees -- South Africa , East London (South Africa) , Araucariaceae -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65584 , vital:28815
  • Description: Newspaper article extract: "One of the best-known landmarks in East London is the Norfolk Island pine growing beside the West Bank post office in Bank Street, opposite Prince Alfred's Park. To almost every person travelling southward down Oxford Street on any clear day the tree has the appearance of the mast and yards of an old-time sailing vessel making for Buffalo Harbour under bare poles. In the days long ago, when East London consisted of the West Bank and very little else, the building now used as a post office on that side of the Buffalo River served as the Court-house, Customs and Revenue Office.”
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1959-04-15

Plant may send spire toppling

- Eastern Province Herald

  • Authors: Eastern Province Herald
  • Date: 1959-01-20
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73099 , vital:30152
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Plant may send spire toppling. Few of the people who attend services at Grahamstown's historical Methodist Commemoration Church know that one of the five spires which top the old building is in danger of being destroyed - by a plant. The plant, a wild fig which takes root in any foreign substance and grows without soil, is slowly sending its long, leaf-tipped shoots along the delicate cement-work of the spire".
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  • Date Issued: 1959-01-20

Thorn tree of Jock of the Bushveld

- Eastern Province Herald

  • Authors: Eastern Province Herald
  • Date: 1959-05-22
  • Subjects: South Africa -- Folklore , Trees -- Mozambique -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72038 , vital:29990
  • Description: Newspaper article: "This thorn tree, standing in the heart of Lourenco Marques business district, is reputed to be over 100 years old. Legend says it is the tree under which transport riders from the Transvaal used to outspan after the long trek to Delgoa Bay. It is also claimed as the tree under which Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and his immortal Jock camped before leaving for the interior.”
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  • Date Issued: 1959-05-22

Sit under oak and think of our ancestors

- Harradine, Margaret

Tree may be made a monument

- Herald correspondent

Gumtree 130 years old

- Jacot Guillarmod, Amy

Old tree 'chopped' by age and insects

- Matthews, Ray

  • Authors: Matthews, Ray
  • Date: 1969-11-24
  • Subjects: Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Pietermaritzburg , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71921 , vital:29976
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Old tree chopped by age and insects. Age and insects have put and end to one of Maritzburg's national monuments. An acacia mimosa tree that stood in the centre lawn of the Parkside home of the Administrator of Natal since about 1800, has been chopped down for safety reasons. The stately old tree was National Monument and the plaque on the stump reads: Monuments Commission. Around this tree, Commandant A. W. J. Pretorius, member of the Volksraad and the Burgers of the Republic Natalia decided by a majority on July 5, 1842, to accept British rule.”
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  • Date Issued: 1969-11-24

The twin pines of Kenton

- Robinson, Tony

Milkwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1963-07-10
  • Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme - South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117954 , vital:34580
  • Description: Caption "This battered milkwood, once much bigger, is Woodstock's Treaty Tree, under which, legend says, the 1806 armistice was signed between the British and the Dutch garrison. It is now to be protected by Cape Town municipality. E. P. Herald. 10-07-1963”
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1963-07-10

Ocotea bullata - Black Stinkwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Yellowwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Sideroxylon inerme - Milkwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1980-10-08
  • Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120209 , vital:34859
  • Description: Caption "Growing things. UPE Milkwood; A line of young milkwoods residential area of the University of Port Elzabeth campus. Thhey are being trained as standards, having been grown from seeds selected from upright forms of versatile Milkwood. Protected in nature, Milkwoods, Sideroxylon inerme, are being grown in fair numbers on the campus as they are among the relatively few trees that will accept the hard growing conditions on the sandy, limestone soil. Their crowns are being created well above the ground to form them into shade trees relatively quickly. The student in the picture, taken some time ago , is Johanna Jonker. Eastern Province Herald, Wednesday, October 8, 1980."
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  • Date Issued: 1980-10-08

Pinus halepensis - Aleppo pine

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

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