There are two black mulberries here. A mature tree north-east of the sports pen, on the path parallel with Knatchbull Road. Estimated to have been planted in or near 1888, when the park was laid out by Fanny Wilkinson of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association (MPGA). The park opened in 1989. But the site was previously a market garden (leased by Joseph Myatt from 1818-1869), so the tree may predate the park. There is a recent planting of M. nigra just west of the mature tree, that was heavy wth fruit in May 2016. Revisited in 2022 and measured. An 80-year-old passer-by said: "I remember coming here with my gran when I was a child, about 5 years old. I was lifted up to pick the berries. My gran remembered the tree from when she was younger too." The tree could already have been about 60 years old in the 1950s and therefore about 130 years old now.

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