A RARE oak tree from Windsor Great Park was planted in the grounds of the Bowes Museum yesterday in memory of the Queen Mother.
The sapling was offered by Alan Savage, co-ordinator of Project 2000 botanic gardens and arboretum at Cramlington in Northumberland, after he learned that the Queen Mother had been patron of the Friends of the museum in Barnard Castle. "I saw the museum and park on television following the Queen Mother's death," said Mr Savage, who delivered the sapling himself, giving advice about its care.
The tree had been given by the Crown Estate. It is a "descendant" of the School Oak, a tree just beside the Royal School in Windsor Great Park.
Mr Savage has also offered the museum further trees for the park, free of charge, to add to the 69 specimen trees planted by individual sponsors during the Eighties.
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