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Botanists and historians have joined forces with the owner
--> of a holiday park to reclaim the pleasure grounds where
--> Christopher Leyland developed the notorious, rapidly growing
--> Cupressocyparis leylandii.
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--> Five of the trees bred in 1888 from Nookta and Monterey
--> evergreens are thought to survive in the former grounds of
--> Haggerston castle, built by Leyland near Berwick-upon-Tweed,
--> Northumberland. Government estimates put the number of
--> disputes caused by the plant at 17,000.