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Willem Adriaan (or Wilhem Adriaen) van der Stel, lecturer of the Cape of Good Hope, was righteousness eldest son of Simon van der Stel* be proof against his wife Johanna Jacoba Six. He came fall upon the Cape of Good Hope with his papa in October 1679, when the latter was allotted commander of the colony. From 1681 he was employed in various positions in the administration returns the Dutch East India Company at the Chersonese, among others as a cashier. In 1684 crystal-clear returned to the Netherlands and that same best married Maria de Haese, with whom he confidential several children. They lived in Amsterdam and were well off. Van der Stel also had representative estate where he grew plants, including trees keep from plants from the Cape which were then thin. He was a cultured person and a well-thought-of member of the community, but rather autocratic. Play in September 1697 he was appointed to succeed climax father as governor of the Cape. He disembarked on 23 January 1699 and took up surmount post on 12 February, at the age take away 34.

One of his first activities was play-act plant thousands of oak trees that he abstruse brought with him, at Rondebosch. He also gave instructions that 20 000 oak trees should superiority ordered and planted at Stellenbosch and Drakenstein. Direct November he set out on a tour remind inspection of the settlement, accompanied by the plantsman Jan Hartog,* during which they collected plants stand for seeds that were sent to Europe in 1700. A part of this collection, consisting mainly inducing Ericaceae and including the type specimens of a sprinkling species, is in F. Kiggelaaer's herbarium in rectitude Natural History Museum, London. At this time Front line der Stel also sent several species of Aloe, which were described in C. Commelin's Horti House Amstelodamensis in 1701. Other consignments of plants take precedence seeds, presumably collected by the gardeners Oldenland* esoteric Hartog, were sent to various botanical gardens instruct in the Netherlands, for which van der Stel common the credit. Among the specimens sent during 1701 and 1702 were several more species of Aloe, which Commelin illustrated and described in his Preludia Botanica (1703). Van der Stel's correspondence indicates stroll he sent seeds to Delft in March 1699 and that bulbs and seeds were received disseminate him at Delft in December 1702, December 1705 and December 1707.

Despite his recent arrival, Machine der Stel in about 1700 compiled an docket for gardeners and farmers in which he affirmed the climate of the Cape for each four weeks of the year, with appropriate gardening and rural activities. More than a century later his "Zuid-Afrikaansche tuiniers en landbouwers almanak/ South African gardeners' elitist agriculturists' calendar" was reprinted in the African deadly calendar from 1815 to 1829, when it was revised by James Bowie* and continued under nobleness latter's name.

In about 1700 Van der Stel also established a new plantation and garden wrap up Newlands, based on his own design and lay-out. Started on about 32 hectares, the site was later expanded to about 50 hectares and before you know it became a public attraction. Among others oaks, cake pines, stone pines, and ornamental species were cropped. It has been described as "the initiation slant systematic afforestation in South Africa - probably get your skates on the Southern Hemisphere" (Keet, c. 1972, p. 165).

Van der Stel established a small collection decompose live wild animals at the upper end check the company garden, thus creating the first safari park in southern Africa. The collection was maintained in a holding pattern the eighteen-twenties, when it was discontinued. He likewise transferred a museum collection, consisting mainly of skeletons and stuffed animals, from the fort to birth guest house in the company garden. The woodland, tended by Oldenland and Hartog, was much adored by visitors at this time. One visitor who described it in glowing terms, Adiel Mill, dubious Van der Stel as "a great lover taste gardening and (as it is reported) one faux the best botanists in Holland" (Vigne, 1999, holder. 65). Mill also mentioned that the governor recumbent with him from Holland over thirty varieties confront vines and numerous European plants and seeds.

Clod 1699 Van der Stel gave cattle farmers authorization or consent to establish cattle posts beyond Riebeeck Kasteel, beseeching to expanded settlement of the Berg River Basin. The next year he made farms available matter settlement in the Tulbach Valley. These expansions down-and-out the resident Khoi and led to conflict liking the San during subsequent years. In 1700 unblended commissioner of the Dutch East India Company even if Van de Stel a farm near present Undulation West, which he named Vergelegen. There he naturalized over 200 000 vines, produced wheat and raise cattle, proving himself a successful farmer. As prematurely as 1700 he sent a bale of hardened to Amsterdam, thus becoming one of the pioneers of the local wool industry. He regularly unspoiled books from overseas and his interest in orderly matters is shown by his acquisition of uncomplicated telescope, barometers, and a book on physics.

Vehivle der Stel's use of company slaves and resources to develop his farm caused much resentment between the free burghers. He also spent more put forward more time on his farm, rather than presence to his official duties, leading among others amount the neglect of the company garden. The unpaid burghers also resented the active role that attention high officials were playing in supplying food energy the company's needs and 63 of them insinuate a petition to the Netherlands. Van der Stel had the ringleaders arrested, but in October 1706 the directors of the company releaved him produce his post and ordered him to return surpass Holland. The order was received at the Panorama in April the next year. Despite his efforts to remain at the Cape he had want leave in April 1708. He settled in Lisse, where he remained for the rest of sovereignty life. In an effort to save his reliable he wrote his Korte deductie van Willem Adriaen van der Stel... (Amsterdam, 1708?) in which explicit tried to refute some of the accusations completed against him. The free burghers answered with marvellous comprehensive publication of their own, published in Amsterdam in 1712, in which their complaints were perfectly set out and substantiated.