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Posted by Bill Monck
on 18/3/2007, 8:15 pm
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I am trying to determine what plant it was that was described in a talk given on the West of England Home service on 21 September 1945 by John Betjeman.
He was describing the countryside around the village of Lew Trenchard which is in Devon. I quote"It is a valley of luxuriant growths, huge blackberries, ROPES OF BIRD-WOOD,..."
My guess is that clematis or bryony couild be candidates.
I have enquired of Devon Naturalists Trust, but they have no record. It would be a great shame if such a descriptive, even poetic, name were to be lost for ever. Do you have the answer?
Bill Monck.
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