fruit orchards

31 (a) dṛvètata issahnàa kajsìi čerèši sos plodò si isahnà

The trees have withered, the apricot and cherry trees, and their fruit.

32 (GK) nìšto ne otkìnaxte

You didn’t pick anything.

33 (a) nè ne mòže isahnà si̥ precəftèa se raššumìja se issahnà

No! We couldn’t. It withered. The blooms fell off, they leafed out, and then dried up.

34 (GK) na gorìdi stanà

It [all] turned into dried-out, unripened fruit.

1 (VZh) a ovoštàrstvo rabòtil li si ovòški

And did you work at fruit-growing? In orchards?

4 (a) əmi uvuštàrstvu

Well, fruit-growing –

6 (a) kòlkut smi ìməli pràexme mərməlàt sl’ìvi pistìl

to the extent that we had any. We made marmalade, plums, fruit leather –

4 (c) tùkə imòt tùkə uvòšneni drəfčètə nə vrèmitu

In the old days you had here estates, with fruit trees [or]

6 (c) ud ùbəvi pò ùbəvi bəščìnki s’èki si b’èši ubzəv’èl nəgləsìl

with little gardens each nicer than the other. Everyone had equipped his, set it up –

88 (a) tò be imišlìki tə ku tòlkuvə cvetᶤìlu sìčkutu trì dènə zdɛ̀ grədùškə

There were orchards. They all bloomed so much, but then three days of hail!

89 (a) sədèva po kàpkise sədèvə pək be bəjɛ̀ cvetìli i rudᶤìli b’ehə

Raindrops [all around] here. There’d been so many blooms, and they’d borne so much fruit.

90 (a) əmà grədùškə fànə tə gi bəjɛ̀ purəzvəlì grədùškə

But the hail started up and spoiled pretty much [everything, that] hail.

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