The Crab-Apple Tree

Drove to the East Riding today and stopped for five minutes en route so Joss could stretch his legs.  And there, in the hedgerow, was a crab-apple tree, laden with ripening fruit.  Such a lovely surprise.

Arriving home several hours later, I found a book I’d ordered a while ago had finally turned up: A Tree In Your Pocket by Jacqueline Memory Paterson.  I pulled it from its packet and it fell open at The Apple Tree.  Don’t you just love ‘coincidences’ like that?!

There followed several pages of delightful facts about the wild crab-apple.  Among other things I learned that felling an apple tree once carried the death penalty.  And that you can cure warts by rubbing them with two halves of an apple then burying the fruit in the ground.  As the apple decays, the warts disappear.

So now you know!

Comments

[Chesteraud]

I love coincidences. Thanks also for the lovely picture and the information about warts. Hope I never have any but may be able to help someone who has.

[Life Images by Jill]

gorgeous image of the crab apple - I have never seen one before.