Widdringtonia nodiflora - cypress
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1970-06-13
- Subjects: Widdringtonia nodiflora- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119923 , vital:34799
- Description: Caption "On the right are the three cypress trees on Glen Avon, Somerset East, which Hart brought from Cape Town in the 1820s. The Special Supplement for 150th Anniversary of 1820 Settlers. E.P. Herald. 13-06-1970."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1970-06-13
- Subjects: Widdringtonia nodiflora- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119923 , vital:34799
- Description: Caption "On the right are the three cypress trees on Glen Avon, Somerset East, which Hart brought from Cape Town in the 1820s. The Special Supplement for 150th Anniversary of 1820 Settlers. E.P. Herald. 13-06-1970."
- Full Text: false
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.”
- Full Text: false
- 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.”
- Full Text: false
Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1967-05-27
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122387 , vital:35270
- Description: Caption "Treaty tree gazetted. C. Argus. 27-05-1967."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1967-05-27
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122387 , vital:35270
- Description: Caption "Treaty tree gazetted. C. Argus. 27-05-1967."
- Full Text: false
Erythrina caffra - kaffirboom
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1966-06-15
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119884 , vital:34793
- Description: Caption "With Room to Stretch. Give 30 people three guesses and not many of them will guess that this tree a mammoth of its species, is a Dogplum, or Eckebergia, which is particularly familier to Port Elizabethans as a street tree. In parts of Mill Park, Dogplums that have been able to grow freely have become fine big trees. But the tree in the picture has the bulk of at least six of the biggest Mill Park. The picture was taken on Nocton Farm, 39 miles from Port Elizabeth on the Cape Road. It's a fair guess that the tree stood there over 100 years ago when the area was being developed for farming by the Conton Smiths, Fairbridges and Skeads. That's Mrs Gwen Skinner, chairman of the Wild Flower Society supplying foreground and scale. E.P. Herald. 15-06-1966"
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1966-06-15
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119884 , vital:34793
- Description: Caption "With Room to Stretch. Give 30 people three guesses and not many of them will guess that this tree a mammoth of its species, is a Dogplum, or Eckebergia, which is particularly familier to Port Elizabethans as a street tree. In parts of Mill Park, Dogplums that have been able to grow freely have become fine big trees. But the tree in the picture has the bulk of at least six of the biggest Mill Park. The picture was taken on Nocton Farm, 39 miles from Port Elizabeth on the Cape Road. It's a fair guess that the tree stood there over 100 years ago when the area was being developed for farming by the Conton Smiths, Fairbridges and Skeads. That's Mrs Gwen Skinner, chairman of the Wild Flower Society supplying foreground and scale. E.P. Herald. 15-06-1966"
- Full Text: false
Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1964-07-11
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122440 , vital:35277
- Description: Caption "Post Office Tree did duty as a mailbox as early as 1501. Cape Argus. 11-07-1964."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1964-07-11
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122440 , vital:35277
- Description: Caption "Post Office Tree did duty as a mailbox as early as 1501. Cape Argus. 11-07-1964."
- Full Text: false
Erythrina humeana
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1964-03-31
- Subjects: Erythrina humeana -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122068 , vital:35204
- Description: Caption "Flowering shrub is reminder of 1922 battle. Commandandt Frans Nel, Officer Commandoing Prince Alfred's Guard, examines the flowering umzintzani shrub in the regimental garden at the Drill Hall. Regimental historians believe it was this flower which caused the Xhosa tribesmen to name the Umzintzani battle scene the Valley of the Burning Bush. E. P. Herald 31-03-1964."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1964-03-31
- Subjects: Erythrina humeana -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122068 , vital:35204
- Description: Caption "Flowering shrub is reminder of 1922 battle. Commandandt Frans Nel, Officer Commandoing Prince Alfred's Guard, examines the flowering umzintzani shrub in the regimental garden at the Drill Hall. Regimental historians believe it was this flower which caused the Xhosa tribesmen to name the Umzintzani battle scene the Valley of the Burning Bush. E. P. Herald 31-03-1964."
- Full Text: false
Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122372 , vital:35269
- Description: Caption "This Milkwood tree was one of several which were to have been cut down to make way for a dual carriageway on the Schoenmakerskop Road, but planner have realigned the road to save them. E. P. Herald 1 May 1979."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122372 , vital:35269
- Description: Caption "This Milkwood tree was one of several which were to have been cut down to make way for a dual carriageway on the Schoenmakerskop Road, but planner have realigned the road to save them. E. P. Herald 1 May 1979."
- Full Text: false
Sideroxylon inerme - White Milkwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1963-12-21
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122333 , vital:35264
- Description: Caption "Letter box marks old post tree. Mossel Bay. E. P. Herald 21-12-1963."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1963-12-21
- Subjects: Sideroxylon inerme -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122333 , vital:35264
- Description: Caption "Letter box marks old post tree. Mossel Bay. E. P. Herald 21-12-1963."
- Full Text: false
Milkwood
- 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
- 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
Yellowwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1962-06-02
- Subjects: Podocarpus latifolius- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117832 , vital:34565
- Description: Caption "City move to protect old yellowwoods. E.P Herald. 02-06-1962.”
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1962-06-02
- Subjects: Podocarpus latifolius- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117832 , vital:34565
- Description: Caption "City move to protect old yellowwoods. E.P Herald. 02-06-1962.”
- Full Text: false
Salix babylonica - Weeping willow
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-08-10
- Subjects: Salix babylonica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120168 , vital:34855
- Description: Caption "Obituary: Mr Frederick Christian Mansford Wienand at Longwood Farm, Bedford. E. P. Herald 10-08-1961."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-08-10
- Subjects: Salix babylonica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120168 , vital:34855
- Description: Caption "Obituary: Mr Frederick Christian Mansford Wienand at Longwood Farm, Bedford. E. P. Herald 10-08-1961."
- Full Text: false
Salix babylonica - Weeping willow
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-08-10
- Subjects: Salix babylonica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120177 , vital:34856
- Description: Caption "Obituary: Mr Frederick Christian Mansford Wienand at Longwood Farm, Bedford cont. E. P. Herald 10-08-1961."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-08-10
- Subjects: Salix babylonica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120177 , vital:34856
- Description: Caption "Obituary: Mr Frederick Christian Mansford Wienand at Longwood Farm, Bedford cont. E. P. Herald 10-08-1961."
- Full Text: false
Erythrina caffra - Kaffirboom
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-07-29
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122073 , vital:35205
- Description: Caption "The Day's News from Grahamstown. Herald Staff Reporter. Historic plaque to be unveiled. Just 141 years ago a young 1820 Settler, William Norman and his wife and young daughter, with their belongings sat under a kaffirboom tree at a place he subsequently named Seven Fountains. E. P. Herald. 29-07-1961."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-07-29
- Subjects: Erythrina caffra -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122073 , vital:35205
- Description: Caption "The Day's News from Grahamstown. Herald Staff Reporter. Historic plaque to be unveiled. Just 141 years ago a young 1820 Settler, William Norman and his wife and young daughter, with their belongings sat under a kaffirboom tree at a place he subsequently named Seven Fountains. E. P. Herald. 29-07-1961."
- Full Text: false
Ocotea bullata - Black Stinkwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-06-09
- Subjects: Ocotea bullata -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122015 , vital:35201
- Description: Caption "Stinkwood trees from seed. Daily Dispatch, Friday, June 9, 1961."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1961-06-09
- Subjects: Ocotea bullata -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/122015 , vital:35201
- Description: Caption "Stinkwood trees from seed. Daily Dispatch, Friday, June 9, 1961."
- Full Text: false
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.”
- Full Text: false
- 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.”
- Full Text: false
Umtiza listeriana
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1960-02-26
- Subjects: Umtiza listeriana -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120138 , vital:34852
- Description: Caption "World's rarest tree grows near E.L. Daily Dispatch. 26-02-1960."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1960-02-26
- Subjects: Umtiza listeriana -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120138 , vital:34852
- Description: Caption "World's rarest tree grows near E.L. Daily Dispatch. 26-02-1960."
- Full Text: false
Ficus sansibarica - Wild Fig
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-01-21
- Subjects: Ficus sansibarica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121400 , vital:35096
- Description: Caption "The Day's News from Grahamstown. Plant may send spire toppling. E . P. Herald. 20-01-1959."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-01-21
- Subjects: Ficus sansibarica -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121400 , vital:35096
- Description: Caption "The Day's News from Grahamstown. Plant may send spire toppling. E . P. Herald. 20-01-1959."
- Full Text: false
Stinkwood - Sneezewood - Yellowwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-09
- Subjects: Celtis africana -- Podocarpus falcatus -- Ptaeroxylon obliquum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120055 , vital:34843
- Description: Caption "Above: Giraffe Card. Price 9d. Below: A limited number of Gemsbok produced last year is still available. African Wild Life. p. 239. Vol. 12. No. 3. Sept 1958."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-09
- Subjects: Celtis africana -- Podocarpus falcatus -- Ptaeroxylon obliquum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120055 , vital:34843
- Description: Caption "Above: Giraffe Card. Price 9d. Below: A limited number of Gemsbok produced last year is still available. African Wild Life. p. 239. Vol. 12. No. 3. Sept 1958."
- Full Text: false
Stinkwood - Sneezewood - Yellowwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-09
- Subjects: Celtis africana -- Podocarpus falcatus -- Ptaeroxylon obliquum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120128 , vital:34851
- Description: Caption "The Lure of the Unusual or Curiosity in Animals by R. de la B. Barker. African Wild Life p.246. Vol. 12. No. 3. Sept 1958."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-09
- Subjects: Celtis africana -- Podocarpus falcatus -- Ptaeroxylon obliquum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120128 , vital:34851
- Description: Caption "The Lure of the Unusual or Curiosity in Animals by R. de la B. Barker. African Wild Life p.246. Vol. 12. No. 3. Sept 1958."
- Full Text: false
Stinkwood - Sneezewood - Yellowwood
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-09
- Subjects: Celtis africana -- Podocaarpus falcatus -- Ptaeroxylon obliquum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120064 , vital:34844
- Description: Caption "Old Stinkwood stumps coppice and grow in Knysna Forest. African Wild Life. p. 240. Vol. 12. No. 3. Sept 1958."
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-09
- Subjects: Celtis africana -- Podocaarpus falcatus -- Ptaeroxylon obliquum -- South Africa -- Photographs , Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120064 , vital:34844
- Description: Caption "Old Stinkwood stumps coppice and grow in Knysna Forest. African Wild Life. p. 240. Vol. 12. No. 3. Sept 1958."
- Full Text: false