The Rogue Fruit Trees of Crimea
Five entries in the master list of Crimean trees do not appear in the garden registers of 1793. What is this "master list" you ask?
Karl Gablits composed the list and published it as part of his Physical Description of Tavrida Province in 1785. The list of fruit-bearing trees (he composed a separate list of decorative trees) contains twenty-one entries. Sixteen appear in the garden registers of 1793 and therefore in the Glorious Glossary of (Fruit) Trees.
So which are the trees that went rogue?
Rogue Tree #1: The Apricot (Абрикос; Prunus Armeniaca)The garden registers make no mention of them, but Gablits describes the apricot as ubiquitous, especially around Staryi Krym and Sudak. Rogue Tree #2Rogue Tree #3
Rogue Tree #4
Rogue Tree #5
