The Tree of Youth (also, the Tree of Life) was the first, largest, and most spectacular silver apple tree in existence. It grew at the very centre of the Garden of Youth, and bore shining, silver apples that had wonderful, powerful magical properties, and gave off an ethereal, breathtaking, almost irresistible smell. The tree was enclosed within the Garden, and roosting in its branches was a single phoenix (and the only one ever seen in Narnia). Though the apples were silvery and incredibly…