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About two-thirds of Britain's small, traditional orchards have been
lost since 1960. This is a loss in ecological diversity, in
community knowledge and the intricacy of local distinctiveness. In
2007 the pomologist Liz Copas and cidermaker Nick Poole began a
quest to find and identify old varieties of cider apple trees
around Dorset. The search lasted more than a decade, taking them
across the county, searching in forgotten orchards, hedgerows and
the corners of gardens. The Lost Orchards follows the journey they
took to find, propagate and make cider with Dorset's forgotten
apple varieties: Golden Ball, Kings Favourite, Yaffle, Dewbit,
Golly Knapp, Tom Legg, Best Bearer and Symes Seedlings. The book is
also an illustrated guide to the apple varieties they discovered
and an important history of West Country Orchards. This hopeful
story will resonate far beyond Dorset and will encourage readers to
look closely at their surroundings and conserve their local
orchards.
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