Woman cutting lower-green leaves of Aloe ferox plants for juice-tapping. Note all surrounding aloes already partly de-leaved. This aloe is plentiful in the Coega and Sunday's River valleys and is much exploited there still.
Old dried out Aloe ferox leaves which have been tapped for their juice and left in the ring-like position in which they were laid for tapping, cut-ends inwards. The juice is used in pharmaceutics.
24 Blooms on a single Gazania krebsii plant, despite such dry conditions that no other Gazania or any herb was flowering at the time. Plant on very dry, hard Kalkklip roadway.
The house at left belonged to HG Fourcade,the botanist. Built to his own design in 1918. The house to the right was used by him for visiting botanists. A small stone house in which he lived from 1910 until his house waas built is behind this righthand house.
The house at left belonged to HG Fourcade,the botanist. Built to his own design in 1918. The house to the right was used by him for visiting botanists. A small stone house in which he lived from 1910 until his house waas built is behind this righthand house.
Built to his design in 1918 and lived in by him till his death at Tsitsikamma in 1948, aged 83. Until occupying this house he lived in a small stone cottage (still standing) when he bought the property in 1910.
