[Mb-civic] 350-Year-Old Pear Tree Falls in Sweden

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350-Year-Old Pear Tree Falls in Sweden

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-sweden-pear-tree,0,3698124.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Since the mid-1600s, the massive pear tree had helped feed the people 
outside Enkoeping, an hour's drive west of Stockholm.

It was widely believed to be the oldest of its kind in the Nordic countries 
-- Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The tree measured 14 feet 
in circumference and was about 20 feet tall, Alf Svantesson said.


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