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STELLENBOSCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STELLENBOSCH , a See also:

town of the Cape See also:province, See also:South See also:Africa, 31 M. by See also:rail E. of Cape Town. Pop. (1904), 7573, of whom 2497 were whites. It lies 36o ft. above the See also:sea in a pleasant upland valley on the See also:Atlantic slope of the See also:coast range, and is, next to the See also:capital, the See also:oldest See also:settlement in the province, having been founded by See also:order of Commandant See also:Simon See also:van der Steil in 168r and named after him and his wife, whose See also:maiden name was See also:Bosch. The streets are lined with magnificent oaks, while many of the houses with heavy, thatched gables date from the 17th See also:century. Stellenbosch is the headquarters of the Cape See also:branch of the Dutch Reformed See also:Church, and is also an, important educational centre. The See also:chief buildings, besides the churches, are the Dutch theological See also:seminary, See also:Victoria See also:College, Bloemhof girls' school, agricultural college and school of mines, laboratory and school of See also:science and the S.A. conservatorium of See also:music. The surrounding See also:district is largely devoted to viticulture and See also:plants of small , stature are called under-shrubs or bushes. The limits between these different kinds of See also:stem are not' always well defined; and there are some plants occupying an inter-mediate position between shrubs and trees, to which the name of arborescent shrubs is occasionally given. The stem is not always conspicuous. Plants with a distinct stem are caulescent; those in which it is inconspicuous are See also:acaulescent, as the See also:primrose, cowslip and See also:dandelion. A similar See also:term is given in See also:ordinary See also:language to plants whose stems are buried in the See also:soil, such as See also:cyclamen or sowbread.

Some plants are truly stemless, and consist only of expansions of cellular See also:

tissue representing stem and See also:leaf,, called a thallus, and hence are denominated Thallogens, or Thallojhytes. See also:fruit-growing. The vineyards have been replanted with See also:American See also:stocks. The Stellenbosch valley is closgd in by rahges of hills beyond which, eastward, lies Frenchhoek valley, with a See also:village of the same name. This district was the headquarters' of the Huguenot refugees who settled in South Africa at the See also:close of the 17th century. In the See also:early days of the See also:Boer See also:War (1899-1902) Stellenbosch was one of the See also:British military bases, and was used as. a " remount " See also:camp; and in consequence of See also:officers who had not distinguished themselves at the front being sent back to it, the expression " to be Stellenbosched " came into use ; so much, so, that in similar cases officers were spoken of as ' Stellenbosched " even if they were sent to some other See also:place. The remount dept is maintained; horses and mules thrive here.

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