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TREE PLANTING CEREMONY 22nd
APRIL 2008
AT
SOMERLEYTON HALL
A number
of years ago a survey was carried out to establish how significant a
part plants play in the well being of the environment.
The
results were astounding. Trees for example absorb a large amount of
pollution, and render it harmless.
It is a
known fact that during the process of manufacturing raw material into a
form that plants can use to enable them to grow, one of the chemicals
that is used is Carbon Dioxide the waste product produced at the end of
the process is pure oxygen.
Thinking
about that. We need oxygen to live and plants need Carbon Dioxide to
live. Therefore if we want the planet to survive should we not be
preserving plant life?
Another fact, if a mature
tree is removed in order to remove the
same
amount of pollution and supply the same amount of
oxygen to the atmosphere
75
five
trees need to be planted. I don’t think we are doing that. Our Planning
Department insist that developers plant new trees on a development site
but this still does not replace the trees that are lost.
This
brings me to the ceremony today. Anglia in Bloom
Judge Villages, Towns and
Cities in six counties of East Anglia:
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Norfolk
Suffolk
Cambridge
Bedfordshire
Essex
Hertfordshire
To mark the launch of the 2008 Campaign we are
arranging for trees to be planted in
each of the counties.
Somerleyton Hall has a wide and varied selection of
species growing in the grounds
and it was thought that it was fitting to present
these six rare specimens of
Sorbus Domestica to the Hon. Hugh Crossby to be
planted in the grounds of the hail.
The seed was obtained from two trees that are growing
in Henham Estate.
After some research it was established that the trees
date back to when
Humphrey Repton re-designed the estate making the
trees about 200 years old.
This
is very old for this species of tree. The trees are
now nearing the end of their life
and it would be nice to keep the stock going.
Twelve trees have been planted in Henham
Unfortunately they are not easy to propagate but it is hoped to grow
more so that the species will not die out.
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