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Gablits on apricot trees
12022-06-27T15:55:35-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f592plain2022-06-27T15:59:16-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Apricots ripen in June. The fruit is small "with quite a pleasant taste." (see page 69)
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 #2 Rogue Tree #3 Rogue Tree #4 Rogue Tree #5
