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Old 14-03-2006, 11:40 PM
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Re: the best tree in the garden

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Originally Posted by nightshade
There are specialist fruit-tree nurseries with some of the Old English apple varieties,like the prolific Beauty of Bath with its apples to share habit of carpeting the lawn with fallers for the butterflies hedgehogs and birds
well worth a place in a wildlife garden
Some nurseries advertise cuttings from the trees that were grafted from the "Flower of Kent" apple that grew in Newton's garden at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire (original died 1814). As grafting is a vegetative process I guess these essentially be considered the same tree.

OTOH I don't think you can find a named variety of English Walnut nowadays.
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