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About nine years ago, I brought these jack fruit saplings very safely from Trichy and planted them in my garden, ignoring the advice of my neighbors that one should not have jack fruit trees in a garden. But they have a few peculiar characteristics. They never spread sidewards and have grown only upwards; now they stand tall that I can look at them by only bending myself backwards. For the past few years, the jack fruit trees are yielding fruits in plenty to the envy of my neighbors. Now they say that these jack fruits are so delicious.

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Here is my guava tree. For the past few weeks she has been actively yielding guava fruits in their shining yellow color.But she is too generous and has a number of friends other than me;I think I am a little bit possessive and look at her friends with envy; a number of squirrels and parrots are her close friends.While I approach her only during the day time, her friends stay with her night and day.It seems that she revels in their company too. She also shares her fruits with her friends.I even tried to admonish her saying that her friends would be with her only for a few days until she was yielding fruits.Then, they would go away.But, she simply smiled at me. Every morning, by 0700, I go nearby her.By that time she would have thrown some ripe fruits on the floor.I simply collect them and sometimes pluck some of them from the guava tree when they are yellow in color and large in size. The plucking of guava fruits from the tree stretching myself forward or backwards is a very good exercise for me. 

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I can only marvel at the ease with which my papaya plants have grown into trees so quickly and bear fruits in no time.I should be thankful to my mother who had brought a couple of papaya fruits from her sisters home, a year ago.When the papaya seeds were thrown into my garden, within a few months, these papaya trees have grown in all their grandeur and yielding yellowish fruits.Now I have a couple of trees.Two of them are male papaya trees and they will have only beautiful lengthy flowers.I also have a couple of female papaya trees, yielding a plenty of papaya fruits.Ever since, these papaya began to yield fruits, my wife began preparing a number of dishes using papaya as a vegetable and then as a fruit.I owe my clear vision to these papaya fruits and I have no any problem like constipation etc.My daughter quite often uses papaya fruits for her facial.When summer comes, we have papaya juice frequently.Then what else you want from these papaya trees.They are our family friends.

Now let us go nearby my lime tree. Though she is my friend, I have a problem with her. Even though, her roots and trunk are at our home, she has stretched out her branches overstepping our compound wall. Since she is nearby the jack fruit tree, perhaps seeking the sun light she must have spread her tentacles far and wide. For the past few years she has been yielding lime fruits in golden yellow color throughout the year. When she is full with her fruits, the passersby have always been looking at her with envy. Her fruits are as big as a mini cricket ball. Though she is my friend, I pluck her fruits only after sustaining injuries caused by her thorns. But when I pluck a lime fruit, I forget all my sufferings, when I inhale her peculiar sweet scented lime smell.

Since the above said trees in my mini orchard are my very close friends,I spend my considerable time with them.In fact, I have only a very few friends other than these trees.