 Digory plants the apple's core with Uncle Andrew's rings in the back yard of his aunt's home in London, and it grows into a large tree.Soon afterwards, Digory's family inherits a mansion in the country, and many years later the apple tree blows down in a storm.Digory, now a middle-aged professor, has its wood made into a wardrobe, setting up the events in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".