It would puzzle a monkey ; I read with great interest the excellent article (January 3) on monkey puzzle trees by Anne Swithinbank and thought that your readers might like to know who the "proud Cornish owner of one of the earliest trees" was - an ancestor of my husband.

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I read with great interest the excellent article (January 3) on monkey puzzle trees by Anne Swithinbank and thought that your readers might like to know who the "proud Cornish owner of one of the earliest trees" was - an ancestor of my husband.

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