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- 17 November 1954 - 22 November 1974 (Creation)
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Correspondence, reports, notes, weekly progress reports from Mr Le Grange; Joane's own notes and programs reports; invoices; telex messages; telegrams; wage accounts; press clippings re proposed plan for an indigenous garden at the farm; its construction; layout; nursery; boreholes; reservoir; soil analyses; windbreaks; bog garden; planting of trees, plants, succulents, rookeries, lawn shaping, seeds; nursery lists; swimming pool; article by Dudley D'Ewes - Coaxing a Garden from the Veld, December 1962; article by Joane Pim - Mauritzfontein, 7 October 1963; visitors to Mauritzfontein; botanical list of material planted over the years at Mauritzfontein, February1972.
Main correspondents: Briscoe, H.W. (Buzzer); Carp, Bernard - Succulents Nurseries; D'Ewes, Dudley; Le Grange, H.J.; Liebenberg, L. - Woodlands, Nurseries; Oppenheimer, Bridget & Harry; Sapphire Pools; Thoms, Dr Tremayne. See also Photographs & Slides.