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The Company's
Garden is
the
oldest
garden
in South
Africa,
a park and
heritage
site[1] located
in
central Cape
Town.
The
garden
was
originally
created
in
the
1650s
by
the
region's
first
European
settlers
and
provided
fertile
ground
to
grow
fresh
produce
to
replenish
ships
rounding
the
Cape.
It
is
watered
from
the Molteno
Dam,
which
uses
water
from
the
springs
on
the
lower
slopes
of Table
Mountain.[2]
Company's
Garden
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TypeBotanicalLocationCape
Town,
South
AfricaCoordinates33.927408°S
18.416675°EOperated byCity
of
Cape
Town

Walking
in
the
Company's
Garden

Squirrel
in
the
Company's
Garden
HistoryEdit
The Dutch
East
India
Company established
the
garden
in
Cape
Town
for
the
purpose
of
providing
fresh
vegetables
to
the
settlement
as
well
as
passing
ships.
Master
gardener
and free
burgher Hendrik
Boom
prepared
the
first
ground
for
sowing
of
seed
on
the
29th
of
April
1652.
The
settlers
sowed
different
kinds
of
seeds
and
kept
record
thereof
each
day.
Through
trial
and
error
they
managed
to
compile
a
calendar
which
they
used
for
the
sowing
and
harvesting
throughout
the
year.
At
first
they
grew
salad
herbs,
peas,
large
beans,
radish,
beet,
spinach,
wheat,
cabbage,
asparagus
and
turnips
among
others.
They
caught
fish,
trapped
wild
animals
and
traded
with
the Khoisan for
cattle
and
sheep
with
copper
and
tobacco.
By
1653
the
garden
allowed
the
settlers
to
become
self
sustainable
throughout
the
year.
As
the
settlement
grew,
additional
farming
land
was
prepared
at Rondebosch in
1656.
By
1658
nearly
every
garden
plant
of
Europe
and
India
was
already
cultivated
in
the
garden,
though
potato's
and
maize
were
not
yet
introduced.[3]
Before
1680
the
Company's
Garden
was
mainly
used
to
produce
vegetables,
until Simon
van
der
Stel laid
out
the
ground
afresh
for
the
purpose
of
beautifying
the
garden.
During
the 17th
century the
garden
was
made
famous
by
writers
of
various
nationalities,
claiming
that
visitors
who
had
seen
the
most
celebrated
gardens
of
Europe
and
India
were
agreed
that
nowhere
else
in
the
world
was
so
great
a
variety
of
trees
and
shrubs
of
vegetables
and
flowers
to
be
met
with
together.
The
garden
superintendent
and Botanist Hendrik
Bernard
Oldenland
compiled
a
herbarium
which
was
sent
to
the Netherlands after
his
sudden
death.
In
1770
the
'Catalogue
of
Plants'
was
found
in
possession
of
Professor
Burmann
of Amsterdam.[4]
Features
in
the
parkEdit
The
oldest
cultivated
pear
tree
in
South
Africa
(circa
1652)
A
rose
garden
designed
and
built
in
1929
A
well
stocked
fish
pond
Dellville
Wood
Memorial
Garden,
which
commemorates
the World
War
I Battle
of
Delville
Wood in
France,
in
which
a
predominantly
South
African
force
of
more
than
3,000
soldiers
was
reduced
to
755
survivors
by
German
forces
An
aviary
Restaurant
– The
Company's
Garden
Restaurant
Botanically
and
historically
valuable
trees
Local
arts
and
crafts
along
the
avenue
Lawns
and
benches
A
herb
and
succulent
garden
Historic
statues
Iziko
South
African
Museum and Iziko
National
Gallery
Various
wild,
feral
and
semi-domesticated
species
of
birds
and
animals,
including
the
African turtle
dove, laughing
dove, rock
dove, Egyptian
goose and squirrels.
MonumentsEditImageSubjectLocationDesigner/SculptorDate
of
unveilingNotesListingCecil
John
Rhodes
1855–1902
Your
hinterland
is
there
33.92664°S
18.4174°E
Herbert
Baker28
June
1910 –University
of
Cape
Town
Newspaper
Archives
Cape
Argus
Main
article: Cecil
John
Rhodes
Statue
Japanese
Lantern
Monument
33°55′33″S 018°25′6″E
1932
Main
article: Japanese
Lantern
Monument
Artillery
Memorial
33°55′41.9″S 18°24′58.5″E
Main
article: Artillery
Memorial,
Cape
Town
Delville
Wood
Memorial
This
memorial
commemorates
the
South
Africans
who
died
in
the
Great
Wars
1914–1918,
1939–1944.
33°55.686′S 18°24.958′EHerbert
Baker3
November
1930
Main
article: Delville
Wood
Memorial
Major
General
Sir
Henry
Timson
Lukin
EKCB
CMG
DSO
Commander
Legion
Nile
Born
24
May
1860
Died
16
December
1925
He
served
his
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