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SA tree 250 years old

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.”
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  • Date Issued: 1959-04-15

Sit under oak and think of our ancestors

- Harradine, Margaret

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

Trunk call answered

Steeped in mystery

- The Star

  • Authors: The Star
  • Date: 197u
  • Subjects: Adansonia digitata -- South Africa , Trees -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71981 , vital:29982
  • Description: Newspaper article published in The Star, ca. 1970 detailing the massive baobab tree, Muri Kunguluwa, found in South Africa
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  • Date Issued: 197u

Cathedral Chancel, Grahamstown

Oak Tree

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • 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

Railway station, Grahamstown

Garden giants 100 years old

- South African Digest

  • 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

A good tree is worth saving

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

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

Gumtree 130 years old

- Jacot Guillarmod, Amy

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

Indigenous plants in public parks and gardens

- Rycroft, H B

  • 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

Historic tree was just a nuisance

- Turpin, Eric

Century of growth

  • Date: 1960-08-06
  • Subjects: Trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Oak trees -- Port Elizabeth, South Africa , Adler, Nathaniel
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71834 , vital:29954
  • Description: Newspaper article: "Century of growth”. Article reads: "Lovely 20-year old Denise Baker reads a plaque on an almost forgotten oak in St. George's Park. The tree was planted 100 years ago today. The inscription reads, "This tree was planted by Nathaniel Adler, Esq. on the occasion of the visit of H.R.H. Prince Alfred, August 6, 1860."
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  • Date Issued: 1960-08-06

Bold man saves tree

- Babiana

Tree species in unfamiliar places - Graaff-Reinet town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

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