On 03/23/2020 10:29 AM, Harvard Horvath wrote:
wrote this crap:
On 03/20/2020 06:56 PM, Harvard Horvath wrote:
wrote this crap:

Wrong. I suspect you have never smelled real orange blossoms.

Well, since I live in Toledo where they grow no oranges, you're
probably right. But I've got some hand cream that the label says
smells like orange blossoms. But I'll bet you've never smelled real
apple blossoms or cherry blossoms.

They grow both around here, but I've never been anywhere when/where they
were blooming. Apricot blossoms don't have much smell. We bought the
dwarf orange just for the smell of the blossoms, which is fortunate --
the most oranges we ever got: 8. Most years: 0-1. Lagniappe.

My neighbor had an apricot tree and my mother made the best apricot
preserves. Smuckers makes them almost as good as my mother's.
https://www.amazon.com/Smuckers-Pres...s%2C236&sr=8-2
We had a plum tree in our backyard and the blossoms had very little
fragrance. But the cherry trees had a wonderous fragrance, and apple
blossoms smell like apples, but much more intense.

We had two apricot trees when I was a kid. One had small delicious
apricots and the other had large relatively tasteless ones which could
be pickled (sugar/cinnamon/cloves) like peaches. We also had a Santa
Rosa plum tree, which had wonderful-for-eating plums and massive amounts
for jam/jelly/preserves.

It's hard to find SR plums in the stores, and the apricots are equally
unimpressive. I didn't appreciate this stuff when I was a kid -- it was
just the stuff that we always had a lot of because Grandma made it. A
couple of years ago we bought a couple of jars of homemade plum jam at
an estate sale that the stupid heirs sold for a pittance. I hope their
Grandma cut the little assholes out of the will.

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Cheers, Bev
Never argue with a woman holding a torque wrench.