Botanic Garden (Company's Garden), Cape Town, Subscriber's Ticket (1869)

BOTANICAL GARDEN, CAPE TOWN, , SUBSCRIBER'S TICKET, 1869, STIFF CARD, 1O cms X 6.1 cms, ORIGINAL, ticket has been cut down however, name, date & garden objectives on reverse are legible, cursive writing in pencil to face of ticket, condition: fair.

THE SUBSCRIBER NAMED IS SIR THOMAS MACLEAR.  

 Sir Thomas Maclear  was Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. Maclear in the Eastern Cape is named after him.

Botanical Garden, Cape Town was the successor  to Company's Garden, Cape Town, 

The Company's Garden is the oldest garden in South Africa, a park and heritage site located in central Cape Town. The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape. It is watered from the Molteno Dam, which uses water from the springs on the lower slopes of Table Mountain..

( I see the literature today refers to the ''Botanical Garden'' however the ticket references the "Botanic Garden".