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Wanted: genius apple farmer
By Wang Xiang |
June 28, 2010, Monday
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A university in Guangdong Province is offering a 100,000-yuan reward (US$14,726) for growing an apple tree in south China's hot climate from cuttings of the tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravity.
The graft was donated to Shantou University by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing after Cambridge University gave him cuttings of the tree, China News Service reported today.
But the Guangdong campus is too hot for apple trees to grow. The university said the reward has attracted over 500 people.
Forestry expert Zhang Jianguo said it is possible to grow apple trees in south China but it was clearly a waste of money to build a greenhouse just for one apple tree.
The tree is still in England waiting for Shantou University's final decision to move it to China.
In May, a fragment of the Newton's apple tree was sent into space aboard United States shuttle Atlantis.
The graft was donated to Shantou University by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing after Cambridge University gave him cuttings of the tree, China News Service reported today.
But the Guangdong campus is too hot for apple trees to grow. The university said the reward has attracted over 500 people.
Forestry expert Zhang Jianguo said it is possible to grow apple trees in south China but it was clearly a waste of money to build a greenhouse just for one apple tree.
The tree is still in England waiting for Shantou University's final decision to move it to China.
In May, a fragment of the Newton's apple tree was sent into space aboard United States shuttle Atlantis.
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