The site with the Tokai arboretum thereon, situated on portions of the undermentioned properties:
(i) A portion of the farm Tokai, situated in the Cape Division, Province of the Cape of Good Hope (now known as the fann Tokai 908). Cenificate of Registered Crown Title 311 /1954, dated 29 December 1954.
(ii) A portion of the remainder of certain piece of land named Tockay situated in the Cape district (now known as the farm Tokai 1128).
(iii) A portion of the remainder of certain piece of perpetual quitrent land, situated as above (now known as the farm Tokai 1130).
Deed of Transfer 6611883, dated 6 March 1883 (paragraphs I and 2, respectively).
Historical and scientific interest
The South African forest industry had its beginnings on this site when Joseph Storr Lister, Conservator of Forests of the Western Conservancy of the Cape Colony, laid out this impressive arboretum in 1885. The arboretum is world famous among botanists. horticulturists and sylviculturists on account of the large variety of indegenous trees growing here
