Slips of Holy Thorn Tree Wither and Die in Victoria
A news clipping entitled, "Slips of Holy Thorn Tree Wither and Die in Victoria" from The Daily Colonist, June 12th, 1949. A photograph of a "Christmas-blooming" sprig of the "Holy Thorn" hawthorn tree is featured. The article describes how graftings of the Holy Thorn tree obained and brought to Victoria by local resident, Arthur Warren of Mitchell Street, withered and died. The article also describes the legend behind the Holy Thorn Tree planted at Glastonbury, including information about Joseph of Arimathea, King Solomon, Chaucer, and Henry VIII.
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- 1 newspaper clipping
- Holy Thorn Grows in Englan, Fails in Victoria
- "Slips of Holy Thorn tree wither and die in Victoria" from The Daily Colonist, June 12th, 1949
- 51.14433,-2.70032
- 48.4359,-123.35155
- Katharine Maltwood Collection
- Donor: John Maltwood
- Box1_SecV_C_Lot2_28
- Finding aid for archival fonds: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/maltwood_inventory.pdf
- February 7, 2015
- Digitized by Robbyn Gordon Lanning. Technical and cataloguing metadata provided by Robbyn Gordon Lanning. Migration metadata by KD.
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