Young cherry trees

"All the neighbouring farms have been sold to rich people from England and America. I am holding out here, with my brother Joël. We will never sell, that would be an insult to our parents, our grandparents, and all our ancestors. The white bigarreau cherries are sold at Apt to the fruit jam industry. They have to be harvested mechanically, otherwise there would be no profit left at all. The red cherries, which are sold at market in Cavaillon, though, are picked by hand."

Georges Adrian, Les Mallans, Lacoste, Vaucluse, France

in " Planting patterns ", p. 117