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[Todd Ravitch <travitch@yahoo.com>]

I don't know if anyone stated this later.  I am just
catching up on email.  Brodale was almost lost forever
some years ago.

Todd
NE Oklahoma

Message: 1
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:31:34 -0500
From: "David Doud" <doudone@netusa1.net>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How 'Bout them Apples? (Time
magazine)
To: "North American Fruit Explorers"
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How 'Bout them Apples? (Time magazine)our family
visited Brogdale in 
2001 - I recommend it if you ever have the chance -
train from London to 
Faversham,  about 2 hours,  hike about 2K from the
train station,  or 
grab a cab - Faversham is worth visiting also - make a
day of it...
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brungardt, Sam 
  To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:52 AM
  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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