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    1. [WOR] George Cave
    2. This is my first time posting to this or any site requesting help so I hope I've got it right! I’m trying to trace any details of the George Cave who reportedly started the strain of Cave apples. He worked at Kew Gardens around 1890 before taking over the Calcutta and Darjeeling botanical gardens. I have a couple photographs of him and his wife Kathrine (Nee Baylis born 1871/2) placing him in Calcutta in 1898. Katherine's father was Samual Bayliss who married Susan Gordon in Studley on the 14th May 1871. >From an article in the Independent newspaper on the 1st October 1994 George Cave in 1923 owned a chemist's business in Dovercourt, just outside Harwich. Around this time this variety of apple was raised although possibly by his daughter (Name unknown). I'm assuming these are the same George Cave. Any information would be grately appreciated. Thanks, Phil Bayliss

    03/02/2010 12:44:55