#heritage-tree

#heritage-tree

The more than 220-year-old tree was grown from a pip planted by Mary Anne Brailsford between 1809 and 1815. Its apples were discovered nearly 50 years later by local gardener Henry Merryweather in a garden owned by Matthew Bramley. Merryweather was given permission to take cuttings from the Bramley seedling as long as the apples he sold bore Bramley's name. Steven said her great-grandfather, Merryweather, believed in that apple, he commercialised it, he marketed it, he promoted it he called it the King of Covent Garden'.