[Milton-L] Apples

[Tony Demarest]

I live in Bergen County NJ and have several fig trees- courtesy of a friend's father who had emigrated from Sicily to Yonkers, NY in 1932. From there he took a cutting and planted it in NJ- Being Irish, I had no clue how to grow figs, so I followed all his advice: burying when young, shielding in linoleum, covering with a spaghetti pot- all to no avail, Sprouts rotted, but root stock survived. After five years, I put aside the rescue attempts and let it grow on its own terms. What had been a thirty-five foot tree in Yonkers in the '40's, is now several bushes in NJ- all producing quarts of figs. The bonus- no treatment other than annual pruning. 
Shame- I do not like figs-  prociutto- well, that's another tale.

Tony
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> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:18:47 -0700
> To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
> From: herman2 at mail.sdsu.edu
> Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Apples
> 
> At 04:32 AM 8/23/2008, you wrote:
>>.>
>>>Figs and prociutto are quite commonly paired in Italy, thank you.  You
>>>have to use fresh figs for best results, though.
>>
>>Yes indeed. Here in the Shenandoah Valley, we are at or near the 
>>northern limit for growing figs. A friend of mine who has a fig tree 
>>in her back yard and I mount an annual watch as fall and frost race 
>>to meet the late-ripening fruit. If things go well, she provides the 
>>fruit and I provide the prociutto and we revel in the decadent 
>>loveliness of sweet and salty, the yielding texture of the fruit 
>>with its grainy seeds, the elegant smoothness of the thin slices of meat  ...
> 
> 
> Tell me you make your own prosciutto . . . .
> 
> yours in the slow food movement,
> 
> Peter C. Herman
> 
> 
>>
>>>And yes, figs were among the fruit most often associated with the Garden
>>>of Eden by pre-modern rabbinical scholars.  Some Italian Renaissance
>>>painters chose the fig as well.
>>   Well good - so my flippant remark results in my learning 
>> something I hadn't known before.
>>
>>Hope your apples are lovely!
>>C
>>Cynthia A. Gilliatt
>>English Department, JMU, ret.
>>JMU Safe Zones supporter
>>"You have made God in your own image when God hates the same people 
>>you hate." Fr. John Weston
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