Country diary: grafting to make new cider-apple trees
(WorldNews Environment)

Marshwood Vale, Dorset: These saplings will help improve the landscape near the line of pylons that stalk the area We are in a barn, harnessing the strength of spring to make new apple trees. Smooth, supple twigs - scions - lie before us in labelled bundles. Hairy bunches of rootstock wait in a...