Children's stories with the word cherry in the title. Proverbs and tales about cherries

Summary of a summer country walk for older preschoolers and junior schoolchildren"Cherry"


Matveeva Svetlana Nikolaevna, teacher primary classes MBOU Secondary School No. 9, Ulyanovsk.
Job description: I bring to your attention a summary of the summer country walk “Cherry” from the series “Country Vegetation”. This material It will be useful for kindergarten teachers, primary school teachers, teachers of after-school groups, teachers of children's health camps and sanatoriums when conducting events on similar topics. It is recommended to use elements of the material both in classes and events for schoolchildren and preschoolers. The walk is aimed at older preschoolers and preparatory groups and younger schoolchildren, as well as for all country lovers.
Target: acquaintance with cherries.
Tasks:
- clarify knowledge about cherries;
- expand your horizons;
- develop cognitive interest and creativity;
- cultivate love, attentive and caring attitude towards the natural world;
- create a good, positive mood.
Note: This walk should be taken during the cherry ripening period. All tasks are based on taste, smell, color, etc. It is recommended to do this only with children without allergies and always with the permission of their parents! In my case, these are, of course, proven children.

Progress of the event

Teacher: Guys, today we are going for a walk in the countryside. Having guessed the riddles, you will find out what plant we are talking about.
Sample riddles:
1. Make jam and compote,
From these berries every year,
When she's ready, she turns red,
And they collect them from trees!


2. A branch in the garden with red polka dots,
These peas are very similar,
The taste is sour, the flesh is juicy,
There is always a bone in each of them!


3.Long ponytail
There's a bone inside
The flesh is reddish,
Often sour!


4. I love jam,
I will remove the bones from the berries,
Dark red peas,
A little sour!


5. The crown looks like it’s all dotted,
She is in red berries,
Even ripe with sourness,
Looked closely at this... (Cherry).


Teacher: Well done guys! Today we will talk about cherries. Cherry- This fruit plant, grows almost everywhere: in gardens, on summer cottages, even along roads, as it is distinguished by its endurance and unpretentiousness. The popularity of this berry is also due to the fact that it is very tasty, and it can be used very widely: eaten fresh and stored for future use. Cherries can be dried, made into jam, jams, preserves, marmalade, compotes, used as a filling for pies, etc. Medicinal properties Cherries also make it a valuable plant. Cherries can be frozen.


Cherry - the berry is ripe,
Oh, what a timely arrival!
Today we will go to the garden,
And we'll pick all the cherries.
For compote and jam,
There will be a treat for all of us!


Guys, please find this plant on our site and approach it.


Teacher: Well done guys! Everyone did it.
The bush is beautiful, the most magnificent,
They call the dandy a cherry.
Pantry of juicy berries,
There will be jam for everyone for the year!

(Everyone approaches the cherry bush).


Teacher: Original meaning of the word "cherry" - "tree with sticky sap." Cherry- a small tree or shrub, depending on the species. Belongs to the family Pink ones. The height of the branches can be from 2 to 7 meters. There are about 150 in the cherry genus various types. These are mainly domestic cultivated varieties. Wild cherries are also found in nature.
Guys, how many varieties of cherries have you noticed on our site?


Teacher: I suggest you dive a little into history.
The most famous type of cherry for a long time is cherry, or bird cherry. It is believed that cherries were known already 8000 BC in Anatolia and in Europe - in the territory of modern Denmark and Switzerland.


There is also an opinion that Assyrian king Sargon II(722 - 705 BC) loved the sweet aroma cherry blossoms. According to Herodotus, who lived in the 5th century BC, cherry trees were wrapped in a thick layer for the winter sheep wool. A thick syrup was prepared from the fruits, which was drunk, diluted with water, or used to improve the taste of cookies.
Small Kerasund town- counts the birthplace of cherries and cherries. It is believed that the Romans first met them here and gave them the name - "Kerasunt fruits" It is from this city, located in Asia Minor, on the Black Sea coast, that cherries are grown first brought to Rome commander and slave owner Lucullus. And only later they began to be grown in Western Europe, Italy, then in Ukraine. The berry was first brought to Russia from Crimea.
It turns out that the peoples of the Mediterranean were the first to know about cherries, then they came to Persia and the Caucasus. The Romans appreciated cherries, and they came from Rome already in the 1st century AD. spread throughout Europe - it was grown in Britain, on the territory of modern Belgium and Germany, but it came to Russia much later.
At Yuri Dolgoruky cherry orchards They were already blooming all over the outskirts of Moscow.


Teacher: TO XV century cherry became one of the people's favorite fruit trees - they even attributed magical powers to it. Cherry helped with many diseases; even then people learned to use all its parts: not only berries and juice, but also leaves, flowers, bark and young twigs, stalks and seeds, roots and cherry glue.


Teacher: Let's pick a cherry leaf.
(Then the children complete the task.)


Teacher: Guys, look at the sheets carefully. What they feel like, color, what they look like, describe them.
(The children's answers follow).
Teacher: I suggest you trace the cherry leaf, then draw in the small details, or you can draw it yourself or color the cherry bush in your notebooks.
Note: For country walks, we give each child a notebook or album in which sketches, notes, etc. are made. For this walk, we paste into the album or notebook “Cherry bush” coloring book.
(Then the children complete the task.)


Teacher: Cherry leaves contain vitamins, carbohydrates, magnesium, sodium, boron, iodine and others. For use, the leaves are collected in May during the flowering period. At this time, they gain full strength, and even when dried, they practically do not lose any of their beneficial elements.
cherry leaves- a huge vitamin complex that helps not only improve human immunity, but also cope with many diseases.
The principle of collecting leaves is as follows: With one hand we hold the tree branch at the base, and with the other we pull the leaves towards us. As a result, we end up with a bunch of leaves in our hand. We try not to expose the tree. I suggest you practice collecting leaves.
(Then the children complete the task.)
Teacher: Cherry leaves have antiseptic properties; this quality has long been used in folk medicine and in culinary purposes: if other berries or fruits lay next to them, they retained their freshness longer - that’s why cherry leaves began to be used in home canning. Cherry- a plant indispensable for delicious homemade preparations. Its leaves are placed in salted and pickled vegetables and mushrooms, added to jam - this makes it especially tasty and aromatic.


Teacher: Cherry leaves make an excellent vitamin tea.


Teacher: In bathhouses, instead of birch and oak brooms, in some regions they use cherry brooms; they are very beneficial for the skin - they maintain tone. To make brooms, young and fluffy shoots of cherry trees and bushes are taken - they are cut in the summer, in June. Steaming with such a broom is much more pleasant.


Teacher: Let's take a closer look for cherry fruits. They have a sweet and sour taste. They contain: citric, malic, succinic, folic and salicylic acids, as well as copper, iron, zinc, iodine, manganese, fluorine, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, pectin substances, sugars, vitamins, etc. Cherries have healing properties for the treatment of anemia, diseases of the lungs, kidneys, and arthrosis. Decoction of dried cherries– an excellent antipyretic for children.


Teacher: Exists many different types of cherries.
Here are some of them:
Sweet cherry, or bird cherry.
Bell cherry.
Common cherry, or sour cherry.
Cherry-shaped.
Bitter cherry.
Bush cherry, or steppe cherry.
Sakura, or finely serrated cherry.


Decorative tree, symbol of Japanese culture.


Laurel cherry.
Common bird cherry.


Bird cherry virginia, or bird cherry red.
Note: you can show the children photographs different varieties cherries.
Teacher: Now I’ll tell you a little about the species that grow in our dacha.
Cherries- aromatic, juicy, sweet berry. It has a pleasant taste and aroma. About four thousand species of cherries are known in the world. All varieties of cherries are divided into two large groups - Guini and Bigarro. The calorie content of Gini cherries is low, but at the same time they have excellent taste. Bigarro is a late- and mid-ripening variety that is excellent for freezing and processing. Considering the low calorie content of cherries, this berry can be included in the diet.


Chinese (felt) cherry- a frequent guest in gardens. This low growing shrub with wrinkled, heavily pubescent leaves. Blooms and ripens early. The fruits are sweet and sour.


Teacher: Guys, what can you make from cherries?
(The children's answers follow).
Teacher: That’s right, compotes, jams, jams, pies, dumplings, etc. are made from cherries. How many of you have tried any of the above? What's your favorite cherry dish?
(The children's answers follow).


Teacher:
Cherry jam cherry color,
I've been waiting for cherry jam all summer.
The garden was blooming with cherry and delicious fruit.
I am incredibly happy about the blooms and cherries!

Now let's go picking berries.
You can make jam with it,
Compote, jam. Don't be sorry!
You collect a lot
These bushes grow all around!


I propose to split into two teams. Let's see whose team will collect more berries in a certain time.
One, two, three, four, five,
Let's pick cherries
Let's collect a bucket
Plump, with a pea.

(Then the children complete the task.)


Teacher: I suggest trying different varieties of cherries, after washing your hands and the berries themselves.
(What follows is a discussion of who likes which type of berry best and why).


Teacher: Now entertainment awaits you.
(Follows interesting entertainment, tasks for children).
Sample tasks:
1. Count how many berries. ( Total quantity berries for preschoolers - no more than 10 pieces).


2. Create a problem based on the available cherries and solve it.
3. Name which type of cherry has more berries. (For preschoolers - within 10).
4. Continue the row of berries: cherries, sweet cherries, Chinese (felt) cherries, etc.
Note: You can use other berries, such as currants.


5. Guess by taste, with your eyes closed, what type of cherry it is.
6. Create a cherry design or pattern using a bowl of yogurt, cream or ice cream.


Teacher: Guys, it turns out that cherries also have contraindications related to dangerous properties cherries. Here are some of them:
1. People suffering from diseases gastrointestinal tract, you should not eat a lot of cherries, which have a sweet and sour taste, so as not to provoke an exacerbation of the disease.
2. People with gastritis, ulcers or diabetes should not eat cherries, as they aggravate the course of these diseases.
3. After eating cherries, you should rinse your mouth with water so that the acid does not damage the tooth enamel.
4. When preparing cherry compotes, it is not recommended to use the method of pouring boiling water 3 times, as this can cause severe poisoning. In addition, eating compotes and cherry jam that have been stored for a long time can cause severe poisoning.
5. It is not advisable for obese people to consume cherries in large quantities, as they increase blood glucose levels and can cause diabetes or simply extra pounds.
What conclusion can be drawn?
(The children's answers follow).
Teacher: That's right, you should be careful and picky when eating cherries!

TALES ABOUT CHERRY

Parable about CHERRY

A fairy tale about the healing qualities of cherries (fragment)

Mother Cherry was sad without her daughter. One day she came to the garden and saw a tree covered with white flowers. The tree whispered tenderly:

Don't be sad, mother. I became a tree, but I didn’t leave you, I live nearby.

“I feel bad,” my mother complained, “my stomach hurts, my back aches.

I will grow dark burgundy berries for you. Drink their juice and the pain will go away. Cherry berries will remove all poisons from the body,” the tree consoled mother.

Soon the white petals of the cherry fell and berries grew in their place. In the middle of summer, the berries darkened, as if burgundy buttons on a dark green dress of leaves sparkled.

Mother started drinking cherry juice, and her pain went away. Other people heard about this and also began to come to the cherry for help.

Cherry grew taller than five meters. At the end of summer, her dark green dress was invisible under the raspberries. One day Mark’s servant came to Cherry and asked:

- Help, Cherry. Mark is tormented by thirst, his legs are swollen, and his nose is bleeding.

Cherry lowered the branch with juicy berries and rustled:

“Let your master eat these berries, and chop the leaves from the branch and put them in your nose.”

Cherry treated Mark for a whole month. The leaves stopped bleeding, and the cherries quenched the thirst of the patient. After his illness, Mark came to his mother, bowed and said:

Cherry saved me! I want to remember this cherry orchard grow.

Fine! Cherry grows new shoots from its roots every year. I'll give them to you if you promise that you won't spare cherries for people.

I promise,” Mark replied. “When my garden grows, then Cherry will understand like I do...


NEVESTA INISHENKA


In ancient times, fairies were raised in the heavenly gardens of paradise fruit trees and decided to give them to people. On a beautiful spring day, one of the fairies came down to earth and saw a girl in a white veil shedding tears: “If I were a tree, I would not know grief.”

- Why are you sad? - the fairy asked the girl.

— The cruel rich man Anthony wooed me. I’m afraid to connect my life with such a person, but my mother and I have nothing to live on,” answered the bride.

“Don’t worry, I will fulfill your wish, I will turn you into a tree,” said the fairy and touched her girl with a magic wand. At that very moment the girl Cherry became a slender tree.

Anthony began to look for his bride, he was knocked off his feet, and the wind rustled at him: “Go into the garden, you will see a tree there in a light white veil, this is your bride.”

Anthony hurried into the garden, but could not find the snow-white tree. He rushed away, and the wind whistled again: “Your Cherry has changed into a light green silk dress made of pointed leaves.”

Once again Anthony returned to the garden. Only the leaves on the cherry branches had darkened by that time, and red berries sparkled between them, like buttons on a velvet dark green dress. Anthony never found a bride. Then the wind says to him: “It’s obvious your soul is callous, since you can’t find your love.”

Cherry’s mother was sad without her daughter, but soon she dreamed that the tree that grew after her daughter disappeared spoke to her in Cherry’s voice. In the morning, mother ran up to the tree and recognized it as her daughter. She complained to her:
“If only you, daughter, lived in a rich family, I would get a softer piece.” Rough food gave me stomach and kidney pain.

“Don’t worry, mother,” answered Cherry, “an infusion from my branches will heal your stomach, and the juice of my berries will heal your pain.” Since then, my mother began to treat herself with cherry drugs.

One day, a neighbor boy fell ill with jaundice. Cherry advised mother to boil cherry leaves in milk and give them to the sick person. The boy soon recovered. When he was completely stronger, he ran to Cherry, stroked the gray-brown trunk and whispered:
- You saved me, Cherry.

- Help yourself to my juicy cherries more often. They remove poisons from the body. After your illness, this is especially important,” the tree answered affectionately.

Soon Cherry grew taller than five meters. At the end of summer, her dark green dress was invisible under the crimson berries. People from all the surrounding villages then came to Mother Cherry, and she did not refuse anyone. One day Anthony’s servant came:
- Madam, help my master. Heat and thirst tormented him. His face and legs were swollen. Nothing helps. And today my nose started bleeding and can’t stop. There is only one hope for you!

The cherry tree made an alarming noise, but suddenly lowered the branch with the juiciest berries and whispered: “Let your owner eat them, and the leaves from this branch should be crushed and put in the patient’s nose.”

The leaves stopped the bleeding, and the cherries quenched the thirst of the patient, and after a week he recovered.

After his illness, Anthony asked his mother for a small cherry sprout and planted it in a tub. The illness softened his character. He groomed his tree and whispered tender words to it. IN New Year suddenly a small cherry blossom blossomed to everyone's surprise. It’s frosty outside, and Anthony has a snow-white beauty in his hut.

L. Skrebtsova
Questions and tasks for the fairy tale:

What new things did you learn about cherries from this fairy tale?
Why couldn't the wind help Anthony?
What helped Anthony change?
Have you ever picked cherries?
Who do cherry trees remind you of?
Draw Cherry in different outfits.
If you were given the opportunity to be any fruit tree or fruit for one day, which one would you like to become and why?


HParole-WITHHELL

L. Skrebtsova


After his illness, for the first time in his life, Anthony wanted to do something for people. He decided to grow a cherry orchard in memory of his miraculous healing. When Anthony's garden grew and began to produce bountiful harvests, poor people from all over the area flocked to him for cherries, and he did not spare the berries for anyone.

One visiting person told Anthony that in his homeland the same berries grow, only they are sweeter and ripen earlier. Anthony became interested and went to find out what kind of special cherries they were. Soon he brought new seedlings and said cheerfully:
- Take cherries, your sisters, cherries. It will be more fun for you to grow up with such friends. After a few years, pink, red, black and even white fruits appeared on the new trees. Children, squealing with joy, besieged the cherries from morning to evening - their berries were very sweet!

Soon the garden began to produce such large harvests that Anthony had to open a fruit factory, which produced delicious cherry and cherry preserves, jams, juices and compotes. There was no end to buyers.

One thing haunted Anthony: he missed his Cherry. Every spring, the trees, with their snow-white fragrant flowers gathered in umbrellas, reminded him of his missing bride.

One day Anthony came out into the garden and gasped. After warm spring days, frost suddenly returned, the most delicate petals darkened and fell off. He got scared and lit smoky fires all over the garden to warm the trees. He consoled the trees tenderly: “Don’t be sad, the frosts will recede, and you will again show off in your snow-white dresses.”

Warmth from fires and kind words Anthony was warmed by the trees. Even the weakest of them came to their senses. The trees were happy and asked the fairy to return his bride to Anthony.

“Okay, I will fulfill your request. Since such a beautiful cherry orchard grows on earth, the very first cherry can turn into a girl again,” answered the cherry fairy.

The next morning, Anthony came to work in his garden and saw his bride Cherry there, even more beautiful than before.

- Cherry! I believed that you would return! - Anthony exclaimed, breathless with excitement, and Cherry, smiling happily, answered:
“Every day, Anthony, the birds told me about your garden, and I so wanted to see it.”

“Cherry, be my wife,” Anthony asked. “With your help, I will grow thousands of cherry and cherry orchards on the earth!”


Questions and tasks for the fairy tale:

If the cherry fairy had not cast a spell on Cherry, what would her future fate have been?
The teacher distributes cards to the children. Some say “cherry”, others say “cherry”. Then the teacher names the properties of cherries. Children hold up a card with the word “cherry” if we are talking about cherries, or with the word “cherry” if we are talking about cherries. The one who never makes a mistake is the best connoisseur of cherries.
Draw the cherry orchard that Cherry and Anthony grew and write a fairy tale about it.

Information for parents: Under the Cherry Tree is a fairy tale by the famous writer Astrid Lindgren. The fairy tale tells the story of a little girl who sits on a bench near a village road. A woman was walking there and started talking to a girl, who began to tell her that her mother was adopted, and then the gypsies kidnapped her back, and she committed suicide as an adult. The fairy tale “Under the Cherry Tree” is recommended for reading to older children from 9 to 12 years old. Happy reading.

Read the fairy tale Under the Cherry Tree

On a summer evening, Ann sits under a cherry tree and watches the flying swallows. The cherry tree is strewn with snow-white flowers. Oh, how beautiful she is! She should stand in the sky so that little angels could swing on her branches. Maybe she used to stand in heaven, and then God moved her to earth so that Ann could sit under her on summer evenings. Who knows! Maybe this wonderful tree is magical and can make all wishes come true? But no one knows this.

Ann decides to try it right away. But it’s not good to wish for a lot at once, because no one has asked this tree for anything for a long time, it has lost the habit of fulfilling wishes. You can’t just go and wish for... well, for example, a little pony. This can be desired later, when it gets used to doing everything you ask. Ann doesn't want to be greedy and decides to ask for something easier.

“I want someone to walk along the road now, with whom I could chat,” she says loudly, looking at the white cherry blossoms. Ann is waiting. And it’s necessary! Just five minutes later, my aunt appears on the road. Ann doesn't know her. She probably lives nearby in a boarding house.

Aunt stops and looks at Ann. Oh, what a beauty: a pretty little girl, with dreamy blue eyes, sitting under a fabulously beautiful cherry blossom tree.

Ann smiles invitingly at her.

“Good evening, my friend,” says the aunt, “are you sitting here all alone?”

“Yes,” answers Ann, “do you want to sit with me?”

Ann knows not to say “you” to adults. But if you can’t say “you” to them, then how can you talk to them? And not saying a word to adults is somehow awkward. And so Ann, without hesitation, says:

- Do you want to sit with me?

Well, of course, Auntie wants to babysit Ann. She happily sits down on the green bench next to Ann, strokes her blond head and asks:

“You look so small and lonely.”

“Yes,” she says, sighing, “I’m lonely.”

-Where is your mother? - asks the aunt.

- My mother died.

There is silence.

“Poor child,” the aunt finally says. Ann points to the big one White House in the depths of the garden.

— Mom lived there when she was alive.

“That’s how it is,” says the aunt sympathetically.

“But she was not born there,” continues Anne.

- So, where was she born?

- Nobody knows. My mother is a foundling. In this white house lived a gentleman and a lady. Those were my grandparents, you know? And then one morning they went out into the garden and found mother just under this cherry tree.

It seems that the aunt doesn't really believe this.

“Yes, yes, it’s true,” Ann assures her vividly. — Mom was sleeping under a tree, wrapped in a dirty blanket. My grandparents didn't have children and they were glad they found my mother.

“Yes, and that’s not what happens,” thinks the unfamiliar aunt.

- And did they find out who put it there? - asks the aunt.

- What do you think? Exactly, we found out,” Ann answers.

- Really? And who was it?

- Gypsies. They drove past our house at night and took my mother with them. Nobody knows why they put it under the tree. When my mother was three years old, she was sitting one day under a tree on a bench, just like we are now. And guess what happened to her?

- How should I know!

- They came again and took my mother, do you understand? They grabbed him and pushed him into their cart and rushed off so that only sparks flew from under the wheels. Oh, how grandma cried!

“It seems to me that you sit and invent all sorts of tall tales.”

- Not at all. After all, this is my mother, and I know everything about her.

“But you don’t look like a gypsy at all,” says the aunt, looking at Blue eyes and the girl's golden hair.

- And I look like my dad.

- So what happened to your mother then?

— Mom learned to sing and dance and do all sorts of tricks. Everywhere the gypsies came, she danced, and then walked around with a red hat and collected money.

- Wow! - says aunt.

“And at this time, my grandfather and grandmother were looking for my mother everywhere,” says Ann, “from all the gypsies.” But all the gypsies are alike, and it was very difficult to find her. But one evening...

- And what happened that evening? - Aunt asks with interest.

“One day the gypsies were driving along this road again. And my mother was sitting in the same cart. She forgot her grandparents. And when she saw this cherry, she said loudly: “Look, this is my cherry.”

Grandfather and grandmother were just sitting on this bench and heard this. The gypsies set up their camp in that meadow. At night, my grandfather snuck in there and stole my mother back. The gypsy leader woke up and shot the grandfather. But grandpa hid mom under his jacket, ran home as fast as he could and locked the door.

The unfamiliar aunt was about to say something, but at that moment a cart appeared on the road, many carts. This is a gypsy camp rolling past. Ann turns pale. She grabs her aunt’s hand tightly and shouts:

- Save me! They want to steal me! They want to take me away from my grandparents, just like they took my mother away. Save me!

Auntie is also scared. She thought that Ann was making up stories, but now she doesn’t know what to think.

“Save me,” Ann whispers.

But before the aunt can figure out what to do, Ann quickly climbs the tree and hides in its flowering branches.

Gypsy carts stop near the aunt. Aunt clutches her heart with her hand, it is clear that she is very nervous. A dark man sitting in the first tent, waving his whip in greeting, asks:

“Can we set up a camp in that meadow over there?”

The meadow does not belong to this aunt at all, but she screams in fear:

- No, under no circumstances is it possible! Get out of here! You can't stop here.

The gypsy mutters angrily through his teeth:

- We always stopped in this meadow! We are honest people. We don't steal anything.

“We don’t steal anything! - Aunt thinks to herself. “Only children are stolen.”

- Go away! - she squeals.

“Well done, you did it well,” she says, slapping her aunt’s hand approvingly. Aunt hugs Ann by the shoulders, as if protecting her. No one will dare steal this lovely baby, she will protect her.

- Do you want to know what happened to my mother then? - asked Ann.

“Of course I want to,” answered the aunt.

“You know, mom loved these cherries very much.” And one evening, right after grandpa stole it back from the gypsies, she climbed on it, just like I am now. Only she climbed to the very top. And from there she suddenly fell and lay dead on the grass, white as a cherry blossom.

“Oh, poor child,” exclaims the aunt with a sad look.

But suddenly her face turns red, and she abruptly rises from the bench. But Ann doesn’t notice this.

“There are many cherries in the sky like this one,” says Ann dreamily. “And there’s mom and other little angels swinging on the branches.”

- Shut up! - Auntie is indignant. “Shame on you for inventing such nonsense.” Do you want people to believe that your mother died as a small child?! Goodbye, little liar,” she says and walks away with quick steps.

“My mother really died when she was little,” Ann shouts angrily after her.

But she immediately forgets about the unfamiliar aunt. After all, she sits under a tree that grants wishes. Staring at the cherry blossoms, Ann says loudly:

- I want a little pony!

She sits and waits. But the pony doesn't appear. But another aunt appears in the garden with the same dreamy eyes and golden hair as Ann’s.

“Well, baby, it’s time for bed soon,” she says. — Grandparents are calling you for dinner.

“Okay, mom, I’m going,” Ann says obediently.

But she doesn’t leave right away. Flower petals fall on her head, but she doesn't notice them. Little Ann sits under a cherry tree and looks at the flying swallows.

Since childhood, we have known the taste of cherry jam. And we like him! After all, cherries themselves are juicy, tasty, and the jam made from them is excellent. Cherry is deservedly popular among gardeners in our country. It is grown both in the south and in the central regions of Russia, in the Urals and Siberia. And everywhere she gives people fragrant, fabulous fruits of the cherry color familiar to everyone. Paying tribute to the merits of this wonderful plant, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov wrote his famous play “The Cherry Orchard”.

In Europe, cherry trees first appeared in Italy, where they were brought from Anatolia in 680. Then cherries spread throughout the territories of Gaul and Germany. The first mention of cherry cultivation in Russia dates back to the 12th century.

Cherry is a woody plant from the Rosaceae family. IN wildlife There are more than one and a half hundred types of cherries, but only a few of them are used in gardening. These are common cherry, steppe cherry, felt cherry and some other varieties.

The cherry tree does not grow very high, its branches are scattered in different sides and tilted down. The leaves of the cherry are smooth, shiny, and dark on top. green, and below – light green. The cherry fruit grows on a long stem. It starts out green and then, depending on the variety, turns red, pink or yellow. The taste of a ripe fruit is sweet or sour, depending on the variety.

Useful properties of cherries

Cherry fruits are biologically rich active substances. They act as anti-radiation, tonic and anti-hypertensive agents. Cherry fruits also contain glucose and fructose. There is a lot in cherry fruits useful substances– carotene, vitamin C, folic acid and others, and also contains iron and coumarins.

Cherry is a valuable garden crop that is beneficial for human health.

And now we will tell you a fairy tale about cherries.

...Once upon a time there was a cherry tree. Slender, beautiful. Suddenly I saw her angry man and decided to pop the cherry. She asked and begged him not to engage in evil deeds, but he did not listen... One bone fell into the ground, a kind leaf covered it from the wind. The bone warmed up, smiled, and decided to escape. The sprouted shoot hid for a long time in a warm hole, and in the spring it came out and looked out. The sun threw a ray of light on him, and he grew stronger. And he began to grow, looking around at other plants. They grow, and he grows, they bend down from the rain, and so does he. That's how I grew up. And it looked like a real cherry. After some time, small berries appeared on the cherry. And the children, seeing the new cherry tree, began to protect it. They liked to do good deeds, not evil ones.