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- From: ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez)
- Subject: If I could plant only one thing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.220245.26819@math.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 22:02:45 GMT
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- If I could plant only one thing this year, or any year, it would be
- either a plum or apricot tree, whichever variety was self-fertile and
- known to do well in my climate. There is no comparison between those
- hard, taste-free things you buy in the market that were picked green and
- shipped, and the soft, rather decadent, sun-ripened, soft, sweet
- fruits you pick tree-ripened.
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- Third choice would be a fig tree for the same reason. Store-bought fresh
- figs to be watery and tasteless compared to one picked dead-ripe and filled
- with fig nectar. The only reason why fig comes in third is because I
- SLIGHTLY prefer plums and apricots to figs.
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- It would come down to what grew best in the microclimate and the
- horticultural effect I wanted to create.
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