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
- Date Issued: 1966-06-15
- 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
- Date Issued: 1966-06-15
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
- 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
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
- Date Issued: 1964-07-11
- 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
- Date Issued: 1964-07-11
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
- Date Issued: 1964-03-31
- 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
- Date Issued: 1964-03-31
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
- Date Issued: 1964
- 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
- Date Issued: 1964
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
- Date Issued: 1963-12-21
- 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
- Date Issued: 1963-12-21
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
- Date Issued: 1963-07-10
- 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
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
- Date Issued: 1962-06-02
- 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
- Date Issued: 1962-06-02
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
- Date Issued: 1961-08-10
- 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
- Date Issued: 1961-08-10
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
- Date Issued: 1961-08-10
- 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
- Date Issued: 1961-08-10
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
- Date Issued: 1961-07-29
- 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
- Date Issued: 1961-07-29
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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1961-07-29
- 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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1961-07-29
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
- Date Issued: 1961-06-09
- 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
- Date Issued: 1961-06-09
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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-08-06
- 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."
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-08-06
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
- Date Issued: 1960-07-21
- 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
- Date Issued: 1960-07-21
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
- Date Issued: 1960-02-26
- 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
- Date Issued: 1960-02-26
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.”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959-05-22
- 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.”
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959-05-22
Mr. Orpen's tree: a landmark that is older than E.L. Municipality
- 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
- 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
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
- Date Issued: 1959-01-21
- 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
- Date Issued: 1959-01-21
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".
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1959-01-20
- 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".
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1959-01-20