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
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