Campaigners hope to save mother tree of bramley apple

Campaigners have launched an appeal to try to save for the nation the mother tree of perhaps the most popular cooking apple in the world. The original bramley apple tree , which grows in the garden of a cottage in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, is for sale, with the cottage put on the market by its owners, Nottingham Trent University. Every single bramley apple ever eaten can be traced back to the tree, which was planted from a pip by a young girl, Mary Ann Brailsford, in the early 19th century. …