Cherries

[Marcus Marcusson]

As a reminder the damned winter will not last forever.

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And then a thought about the dense occurrence of cherries among old
embankments (at least here). Are they consciously planted because of
some specific reason (as an example if the trees considered stabilize
the ground or counteracting weeds) – or is it as simple as it was
popular eating cherries while traveling?

/M
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[Richard Steinfeld]

Marcus Marcusson wrote:

..or is it as simple as it was

> popular eating cherries while traveling?
>
> /M

It was exactly thus. Old embankments were used when speeds were
low and there were no dining cars. Trains ran very slowly while
going up grades, and it was a kindness of the railroad companies
to plant cherry trees along those stretches. While the trains
struggled up the grades at around two miles per hour, passengers
would reach out and grab the cherries. They became known as "red
fingers," a term that has been lost in the mists of time.

Richard

[gl4...@yahoo.com]

In article <hgrh3p$jnt$3...@oden.abc.se>, Marcus Marcusson
<marcuspic...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And then a thought about the dense occurrence of cherries among old
> embankments (at least here). Are they consciously planted because of
> some specific reason (as an example if the trees considered stabilize
> the ground or counteracting weeds) – or is it as simple as it was
> popular eating cherries while traveling?

Don't know about your location, but we have a fair number of cherry trees,
apple trees, etc. that grow along areas where there are / used to be power
lines or telephone lines. As best as I can tell, birds steal the seeds
from cultivated fruit trees. These don't get digested much at all, and
therefore the excrement contains seeds. So, where the birds perch (such
as the overhead line routes) and is not maintained enough for someone to
pull up the growth, eventually we get such trees and bushes growing wild.

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