Primary school children plant saplings on the Port Eliot estate using plans from 1792.
Sixty pupils from St Germans Primary School planted a hazel sapling each on the Port Eliot estateHumphry Repton landscaped the 60-acre estate in 1792 and recorded his designs in a leather-bound sketchbook called the Red Book.
Coco Brown, who researches the history of Port Eliot, said: "There are 60 acres covered with a variety of trees and if there are to be additions, the Red Book is consulted." Ms Brown said there were 420 trees across the grounds, all of which were indigenous to Britain, and consisted of hazel, silver birch, English oak, rowan, blackthorn and hawthorn.
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