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    HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY TREE

    Mar 24, 2020 3 minutes

    For many, a large part of the attraction of growing fruit is not only the delicious produce, but the sense of history that comes with it. Plant a ‘Court Pendu Plat’ apple and you can enjoy biting into the very same fruit as the Romans who introduced it into the UK some 2000 years ago. Every ‘Bramley’s Seedling’ apple is a direct descendant of a single tree grown from a pip by Mary Ann Brailsford in her garden in Nottinghamshire in 1809.

    The ‘Conference’ pear, even today a mainstay on the supermarket shelves, was so named as it

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