Oak Tree
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1977-11-19
- Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel
- Language: English
- Type: jpg , ephemera , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71866 , vital:29957
- Description: Typed note: "Oak Tree. As at 1977.11.19. In the northwestern part of St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth against the fence of the granstand at the Union Cricket Ground is an oak tree bearing a plate: 'This tree was planted by Nathaniel Adler, Esq. on the occasion of the visit of H.R.H. Prince Alfred, August 6th 1860'. This tree has therefore been there fro 117 years, but it is a very poor specimen of oak with a weak spread of branches, certainly not a good example for its age. It is typical oak".
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- Date Issued: 1977-11-19
Tree species in unfamiliar places - Graaff-Reinet town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-06-10
- Subjects: Trees -- Graaff-Reinet, South Africa , Erythrina caffra -- Graaff-Reinet, South Africa , Cupressaceae -- Graaff-Reinet, South Africa , Afrocarpus falcatus -- Graaff-Reinet, South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65884 , vital:28854
- Description: Typed article regarding tree species found in Graaff-Reinet, East Cape Midlands. Trees mentioned include Erythrina caffra, cypresses and Yellowwood.
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- Date Issued: 1959-06-10
Forest patch on Lynedoch farm, Baviaans River Valley, Bedford
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Trees -- South Africa , Deforestation -- South Africa -- Lynedoch Farm, Baviaans River Valley, Bedford , Lynedoch Farm, Baviaans River Valley, Bedford (South Africa)
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65780 , vital:28837
- Description: Extract: “Forest Patch on LYNEDOCH farm, Baviaans River Valley, Bedford. This small patch of what can best be described as Woodland/ Forest by virtue of its hybrid condition as influenced by man's chopping activities down the years, lies at the head of what is called Grootkloof on this farm, and is the last patch of such forest up this otherwise dry valley in which the lower slopes receive a much lower precipitation than the upper heights under which the patch of forest persists by virtue of the extra moisture it receives from passing cloud. The forest patch is 27 km NW of Bedford town, and at about 1 000 m a.s.l.”
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Railway station, Grahamstown
- Date: 1908?
- Subjects: South Africa Grahamstown History , Buildings South Africa Grahamstown , South Africa History , Grahamstown (South Africa) Pictorial works
- Language: English
- Type: postcard , ephemera , still image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170553 , vital:41935 , Mark Finnigan Private Collection
- Description: Post from Mark Finnigan in Grahamstown History Facebook group: "Grahamstown Railway Station. Postcard by J. C. Juta & Co. of Grahamstown. Posted to Krom River Siding in 1908."
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- Date Issued: 1908?
Good news
- Date: 1985-09
- Subjects: South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century , Boycotts -- South Africa -- Grahamstown , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57677 , vital:26980 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Handwritten sheet containing notices re the boycotting of white-owned shops, Grahamstown, September 1985. Transcription: “Good News[.] We are reminding you about the conditions given to white shopkeepers on the 1st day of boycotting 1.9.1985 in Grahamstown. Whats these condition about[.] We gave out a list of 40 conditions needed by black people. What do we say now[.] Because white shopkeepers see to our conditions now people can buy from white shopkeepers from the 1.11.1985. Note[.] Any white shopkeeper who ignores or rude to a black customer, his or her shop will be boycotted. Remember! Although these soldiers are not needed anymore in the township our needs are not through yet. We would like to see what is going on, and we would have another meeting where we discuss about what we can do. BNotice[.] Any leaflet which is against this one more especially which wasn’t stamped, destroy or burn it. Be careful of those people, also those speaks bad about the leaders at shebeens[.] Those are the people killing your moving struggling[.] (Transcription - W van der Walt - Rhodes University Library).
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- Date Issued: 1985-09
Planted 100 years ago
- Date: 1961-07-29
- Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Trees -- Grahamstown, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Grahamstown, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel , Jobson, J , Graham, John, 1788-1821
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71822 , vital:29953
- Description: Newspaper article: "Planted 100 years ago”. At the bottom of the article, a typed addition reads: "In January 1960 the old tree which stood just inside the gates of the Botanical Garden's Grey Street entrance was partially blown down in a gale, and ordered to be removed in toto. It had been planted by Col. Grahams, the founder of Grahamstown."
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- Date Issued: 1961-07-29
Plant may send spire toppling
- 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
300-year-old bread palm will be moved
- Authors: Argus (Cape Town, South Africa)
- Date: 1956-08-05
- Subjects: Encephalartos -- South Africa -- Photographs , Cycadaceae -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75779 , vital:30464
- Description: Newspaper article: "A 300-year-old bread palm in the grounds of Government House, believed to be the oldest imported tree in the Union, is soon to be moved to make room for additions to the buildings of Parliament.”
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- Date Issued: 1956-08-05
Historic tree was just a nuisance
- Authors: Turpin, Eric
- Date: 1965-09-29
- Subjects: Trees -- Grahamstown, South Africa , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History , Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Nelspruit
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109209 , vital:33098
- Description: Newspaper article: "Historic tree was just a nuicance” discussion the removal of the mimosa tree in High Street, Grahamstown. This tree is believed to be the tree that Colonel Graham was resting under, when he decided to establish the town in the vicinity.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965-09-29
Trunk call answered
- Date: 1980-08-16
- Subjects: Katimo Mulilo (Namibia) -- Photographs , Adansonia digitata -- Katimo Mulilo, South West Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71783 , vital:29950
- Description: Newspaper article: "Trunk call answered”. With two handwritten notes: "Also shown on S.A.B.C. Television July 1980", and, "Note some scars on bark to left of the door ...".
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- Date Issued: 1980-08-16
Starting again with tree landmarks
- 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
Old tree 'chopped' by age and insects
- 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
Indigenous plants in public parks and gardens
- Authors: Rycroft, H B
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71794 , vital:29951
- Description: Extract from The 1957 Conference Report of “Park Administration", in which the then Director of the National Botanical Gardens of South Africa, Professor H B Rycroft, appeals to the inclusion of South African indigenous plants in public parks and gardens.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Cycads plundered
- Authors: South African digest
- Date: 1979-06-08
- Subjects: Cycads -- South Africa -- Pictorial works
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73064 , vital:30148
- Description: Newspaper article: "Cycads, South Africa's precious living fossils, are being stolen and sold to smart-set gardeners in South Africa, Japan and the United States reports The Daily News. Plants of one rare species, Encephelatus Woodii, have been offered for sale in the United States for R5 000. Botanists say cycads sell for R26 a centimeter overseas, so that a waist-high plant fetches about R2 500. Cycads are very slow-growing. Plants germinated 12 years ago at the Natal Botanical Gardens have a stem the size of a small football. Hence plants of a reasonable size may be hundreds of years old, while the rootstock from which the plants grow may be thousands of years old. There are 28 species in South Africa and seven occur in Natal. They are known in Afrikaans as Broodboom (bread tree) because Hottentots were said to make bread from the pith, after it had been left to rot for two months. A spokesman for the Natal Parks Board said the authorities could not prevent exploitation. Convictions for removing protected plants were difficult to obtain as it was almost impossible to prove where the plants came from unless the culprits were caught red-handed. When found to be in illegal possession, plants ere confiscated and planted out.Miss Jane Baxter, Natal Parks Board public relations officer, dwarfed by a giant cycad, Encephelatus Natalensis. This fine plant is thought to be between 150 and 200 years old. The Daily News. S. A. Digest. 8 June 1979."
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- Date Issued: 1979-06-08
Thorn tree of Jock of the Bushveld
- 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
The oldest tree in South Africa
- Date: 19u2
- Subjects: Trees -- Somerset West, South Africa , Oaks trees -- Somerset West, South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71809 , vital:29952
- Description: Article from presumably 'Tha Naturalist', published in 19?2. Abstract taken from fist paragraph: "An oak tree dating back to the 17th Century with a diameter of four metres (and a circumference of 12,66m) on Anglo American Farms’ historic Vergelegen Estate near Somerset West, is thought to be the oldest specimen in South Africa."
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- Date Issued: 19u2
A good tree is worth saving
- Date: 1971-04-07
- Subjects: Trees -- Stellenbosch, South Africa , Oak trees -- Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71757 , vital:29948
- Description: Newspaper article: "A good tree is worth saving”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1971-04-07
Garden giants 100 years old
- Authors: South African Digest
- Date: 1984-03-23
- Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74190 , vital:30272
- Description: Newspaper article: A living landmark in Pietermaritzburg's history, a grove of trees in the heart of the Botanic Gardens, is 100 years old this year. These gnarled giants, all planted in 1884 or earlier, are "probably the most representative selection of exotic trees in South Africa". according to the curator of the Gardens, Mr Brian Tarr. He sees education as the real function of a botanical garden. Picture: Mr Tarr among the roots of a giant Morton Bay fig planted more than 100 years ago. The Natal Witness. S.A.Digest. 1984-03-23.
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- Date Issued: 1984-03-23
Cathedral Chancel, Grahamstown
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint George (Makhanda, South Africa) , Buildings -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs , Cathedrals -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: postcard , ephemera , still image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170562 , vital:41936 , Private Collection
- Description: Cathedral chancel, Grahamstown.
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Baobab
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Adansonia digitata -- South Africa , Trees -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72005 , vital:29986
- Description: Image of baobab tree. Origins unknown.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 19uu