That special apple tree a fruit of which seeded the idea of gravitational force in the mind of Newton have different claimants. His Grantham school claimed that the tree was bought by it and relocated to the garden of the principal of the school. But the National Trust claimed the Newton’s apple tree stood in their own Woolsthorpe Manor garden. Every one wanted to have the shine of that lucky tree.
From the both sources the trees of new generations have been raised through seeding, planting or grafting. Such next generation trees have come up at the main gate of the Trinity College (Cambridge) and in front of the hostel room Newton had occupied during his studying days. The National Fruit Museum of England, Bragdale provided the grafts of that tree and its specie to others till 1948. Whichever tree may have really inspired Newton into discovering gravitational force its offspring are available spread wide. Although there are a variety of apple trees but the offspring of Newton’s apple tree are special because they represent scientific evolution of a fundamental law of physics. In academic way we can say—‘Trees provide shadow to the people but through being the medium of discovery of the law of gravitation they have earned a respect of humans that is incredible. A tree is the best poem of nature and the greatest aid to the science’.
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