The apricot trees are in bloom throughout the valley.
These are the neighbor’s apricot trees: Bob prunes them, and I help pick them. Last year a late frost took the year’s blooms and there wasn’t any fruit. This year, the trees are blooming really fervently since it’ll be their first crop in two years.
Apricots are thought to have originated in the region where China and Russia butt together, and humans have been growing these trees for ages: they may date to 3000 BC. No one knows what the oldest cultivated fruit is, but it’s not the apricot. Contenders for the title include (in no particular order after figs)
- figs
- dates
- pomegranates
- mangoes
- bananas
- grapes
- lemons
- pears
- olives.
Since these fruits have grown for the longest time, you could call these our best loved fruits. For myself, it’s the olives and lemons.. but that’s just me.
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