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Plant Names can be facinating
Amazing where plant names lead you.
Newish neighbour has an old apple tree which produces good fruit and a friend of mine who works at Wisley took a couple to work to try to discover it's name. Came back to me a couple of days ago and said it's an "Arthur.W.Barnes". Quickly I find it was registered in 1902 by an N F Barnes from Cheshire and one parent is Cox's Orange Pippin. Then I discover there is a memorial to those that fell in WW1 in Chester Cathedral with the name of Arthur on it. Further investigation discovers he was a Captain in the 9th Bn. Cheshire Regiment killed on 11/04/1918 aged 32 son of Nicholas Friend Barnes and Elizabeth Barnes of Eaton Gardens and Morris Oak, Eccleston, Chester. He is listed on the Tyne Cot memorial in Belgium, a memorial to those who do not have an actual grave. Finally I wonder if the father who grew the tree was the Head Gardener at Eaton Gardens which still exist on the Eaton Estate in Cheshire. -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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