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Subject: [NAFEX] How 'Bout them Apples?
(Time magazine)
If you use the link at the end of this story,
you'll be taken to the National Fruit Collection's home page. Very
interesting. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn.
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from Time magazine (Asia
edition)
How 'Bout them Apples?
A visit to the
world's largest collection of fruit trees will whet your appetite
By KATE NOBLE
If you shop in supermarkets, you'd be forgiven for
thinking that apples come in only four or five varieties, and pretty bland
ones at that. But a visit to Britain's National Fruit Collection at Brogdale
would immediately dispel that notion. Brogdale boasts the world's largest
collection of fruit trees across 61 hectares of fertile Kent countryside—over
2,300 varieties of apple, 550 of pear, 350 of plum and 220 of cherry, as well
as more than 320 varieties of bush fruits, nuts and vines.
All of Brogdale's fruits have different
characteristics of shape, color, flavor, sweetness, fragrance and size. The
apple collection, for example, ranges from the tiny Decio, brought to England
by the Romans, to the very ugly Knobby Russet and the huge Howgate Wonder,
just one of which could fill three apple pies.
The plant center sells around 75 different
apple trees, but if you can't find your favorite, Brogdale's experts will grow
one especially for you. They can also recommend trees that will happily thrive
in a pot on a balcony, provide an orchard design service tailored to soil or
climate, or even suggest historically accurate trees for a period house.
Visitors are welcome year-round and can take guided orchard tours ($7 per
person) between March and November. tel: (44-1795) 535286; www.brogdale.org
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