Pooja and her apricot tree story
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Mr. Apricot Tree was excited, because he finally was big enough to support tons of fruit. Therefore in the spring time, Apricot took in all the sunshine, water, nutrients and sugar, he needed. Then in mid-spring when his fruits were more than half developed, terrible thoughts hit him. “What if I produce more than I can hold? And what if I produce more than enough? Will all those weeks of taking in all the sunshine, water and all of those other things have been a waste of time?”
Well, when his apricots were fully produced and beautiful, Apricots fears were confirmed; he had produced tons and tons of apricots. However, people and animals alike came and took some of those fruits off his branches. The humans rolled their eyes back and said, “Mmmmm…”, which Mr. Apricot took as that his fruits were really good. Then one day, the farmer of the plantation Mr. Apricot stood tall on came over to Mr. Apricot and tasted one of the apricots. Immediately, the farmer grabbed baskets and baskets and started overfilling them with apricots. Later, when all the people had taken all the apricots they wanted at the store, Mr. Apricot found out that there were tons extra. The extra apricots had, then, been sent to an orphanage. Therefore, the more fruit that trees produce, Mr. Apricot Tree found out, the better for farmers, store shoppers, animals, orphanages, poor people, and yes even trees.
Apricots originated on the Russian-Chinese border in about 3000 BC and were imported along with peach seed into Europe through the “Silk Road” that extended camelback trading to the Mideast. The fruit grows as an escaped naturalized plant along modern roadsides in Turkey and Armenia today in abundant numbers. Apricots were known in ancient Greece in 60 BC and later introduced into the Roman Empire. The apricot trees are believed to have arrived in the early American colonies in seed form for growing into fruit trees by the French explorers of the 1700’s in Gulf regions and in the Eastern United States and at California monasteries by Spanish explorers and missionaries.
The apricot, Prunus armeniaca L., has a distinctive taste and no other fruit has a flavor to match it. Fresh apricots picked directly from the trees are delicious, if a person is fortunate enough to live close to an apricot tree orchard. Canners of the apricot fruit have supplied national markets reliably with tasty tree-ripened apricots. The most important market for apricot fruit developed from the exceptional quality, when the aromatic apricot is dried.
The apricot tree is beautiful in the landscape and can grow to a large size and to a great age, as the massive root system extends in giant growth explosions each year, growing further from the trunk. The apricot tree is very healthy and vigorous and appears to be resistant to most disease and insect problems, as it produces more and more substantial crops of fruit each year as the tree matures. The apricot tree can be grown in extensive areas of the Eastern and Central United States and were well northward; however, the cold hardiness of the tree itself is verifiable, but early frosts can damage the fruit.
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