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A plum among them
12022-07-01T10:47:31-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f593plain2022-07-02T11:16:25-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Abram Pastak tells us that at the end of the 19th century "no one is planting plum gardens" in Crimea. Instead, growers had learned to intersperse plums among apples and pears, at a distance of 4 sazhens (28 feet). (see page 429 of the Atlas of Fruits)
Prevalence in tree population: 40% (6,272 trees) Occurrence rate: 93%
The plum is by far the dominant tree on the orchard registers (hazelnuts are a distant second with 14% of the tree population). Plums were widespread and prominent, with an average of 224 trees in the collected gardens of each village (whereas the average number of apple trees was 25).
