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A few days ago the famous pear garden in Gansu province (northwest China) was officially listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest in the world, passes Visitchina.ru . For several hundred years, there are growing pear trees that still bear fruit and encouraging farmers and their beauty, and fruits.
If you switch to the language of numbers, it can be noted that one of the trees turned entire 436 years — its age and for larger, long-lived trees. And the average age of most pear trees in the garden of 300-400 years. The garden area — about 650 acres, it is located in the county Gaolan in the Yellow River valley, where it makes a sharp turn and the water washed beaches with dumpy old trees. Garden has long been one of the local tourist attractions, which go to see tourists from all over the world.
Guinness World Records — the most famous collection of world records, updated annually. It was first released on the order of the Irish brewing company «Guinness», hence got its name in 1955. Most countries have representative\’s publisher, who personally recorded most of the records, in order to prevent errors and fraud — because many people and institutions are dreaming of that ever get into this book. That\’s the oldest pear orchard was officially registered regional representative of Guinness World Records in China, so that no one was left in doubt as to his honorable status.