A paper on the history of yacht clubs and their prospects now

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Where did this girl get the pip?
Chicken/egg

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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