magine,” says Chris Trimmer, “if everyone who visited the broke a little bit of it off to take home as a souvenir.” That, apparently, is exactly what some have been doing to the Ankerwycke Yew, already some 1,700 years old when, in 1215, the Magna Carta was signed beneath its spreading branches. So for the past nine years, cuttings of this venerable yew have been growing on in the National Trust's Plant Conservation Centre at a secret location in Devon. Some have been replanted close to
