Thanks to Maddy Bull and BBC Online News for the Headline.
A seed planted many years ago, between 1809 and 1815 by Mary Ann Brailsford which grew into a tree, the fruit of which was discovered by Henry Merryweather fifty years later.
The garden in which the tree stood was then owned by Mathew Bramley. It’s seedlings became the progenitor of the Bramely Apple, which we know and love today and is seen now on many supermarket shelves . Mary Ann Brailsford’s tree is therefore very significant and ideally it would be lovely for it’s location and health to be preserved.
The cottages and land that the tree is on is now owned by Nottingham Trent University and they have done a sterling job in keeping Mary’s tree alive as it has being diagnosed with incurable honey fungus, but the land does not suit the University’s future plans
If the land is sold the worry is that the tree and it’s location will be lost which in modern day land development is a distinct probability
Is it worth saving or should we accept that it would be a good idea to preserve it’s D.N.A in the Royal Horticultural Society’s massive store of plants and maybe grow a healthy tree to remember Mary, Henry and William’s contribution to apple posterity and have the tree located somewhere that people can visit it. Watch this space.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏
AI generated image of tree( not the actual one)
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