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Meetings with Remarkable Trees - Series 2 - Milton's Mulberry

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A history of the great mulberry tree which stands in the grounds of Christ's College, Cambridge, which historians believe to have been planted during an attempt to establish a silk trade in Britain during the reign of Charles I. But the programme reveals how the tree has proved more successful at supplying the college with mulberry jam and ice cream.