dgadee
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Darwinism in action?
A paper on the history of yacht clubs and their prospects now
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Neeves
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As Dgadee says - Darwin's concept of natural selection? In this case the apple was not lost amongst others to rot on the ground but was saved, by chance, by the girl. She ate the apple but planted a pip, or pips, and this tree is the survivor.
In the deep recesses, or maybe shallow recesses (not enough room for deep ones), in my mind Granny Smith apples were produced the same way (purely by chance).
I wonder if the Universities are being shamed into action.
Interestingly Bramley's are like hen's teeth in Australia, we use Granny Smiths for cooking - all the others are desert apples.
Jonathan
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KompetentKrew
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Each apple seed is a unique variety - once the bramley was discovered it was propagated by cutting and grafting.
We can never again grow a bramley from seed - that was the only original bramley tree. If you want to grow bramleys in your garden then you plant any random apple seed, wait until it grows to a certain size, and then cut its top off and graft a bramley branch onto it. Thereafter your hybrid tree will produce bramley apples.