Original caption "ILN Vol. 72 p, 509: 1878. (Melton Prior) Said to be the largest tree in the Waterkloof. In the Kaffir War, after some heavy fighting, Sir G. Cathcart had his name and the date carved on the tree. It lived until about 1875 when it began to die. It was about 150 ft. high and 29 ft. in circumference (i.e. 45.6 m high and 8.8 m round)."

Caption "The felling of the palm tree at the Sacred Heart Church King Wms Town [King William's Town]. 1962. The Church had been so well balanced by the two huge palm trees. Now it is all odd. The first English Starling in K.W.T. were seen in the right-hand palm."

Caption "A beautiful Hyphene palm felled to make way for a man-made religious sanctuary. Sheer desecration. Garden of Sacred Heart Church, King Wms. Town [King William's Town]. June 1962. R.C. of course."

Caption "Trees in the r[e]lict for[e]st patch at the head of Grootkloof on Mynedoch (corrected to Lynedoch)" farm, 17 km NW Bedford town, Bedford CP. This forest has been opened up down the years.”

Caption "View showing part of the relict forest at then head of Grootkloof, 17 km NW Bedford, in the Baviaans River valley, on Lynedoch farm.”

Caption "At Storm’s River Bridge (west side), Tsitsikamma. Across the road from Restaurant & Gorge, c. 1960’s. Shows internal cross-section of a forest, with trunks and canopy.”

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.”

Caption "TW 11. Showing the nature of tall moist-forest growth at Cwengcwe, King Wms Town. A cross section against a place recently felled of its pines. 1962."

Original hand-written caption "Row of pines in Alexandria Road, King Williams Town, the main thoroughfare of the national road through the town, each with a notice bearing a word which in the end made a sentence inviting people to attend the Dutch Reformed Church Bazaar. Strangely though the wording is in English, not in Afrikaans”.

Original hand-written caption "Sheer vandalism at East London. The road through the beautiful Fort Grey Forest Reserve, Buffalo Pan at east London. Only a strip of 50 yards wide has been left at the right. All the beautiful forest has been removed to make way for a pineapple research station. This is a public scandal”.