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Kashgar has always enjoyed the reputation of being a "Land of Fruits and Melons", with Boshikelamu ranking first in the area. Among the great variety of fruits in Boshikelamu, the apricot alone has more than twenty strains, and grape, apple and pear have nearly twenty strains each. Also, there are many strains of cherry, plum, peach, quince, date and so on.
Each of the fruits has early, middle and late ripening varieties. In May, the white, sweet and tasty mulberries ripen and, from then on, apricot, cherry, fig, sweet-kernel peach, jasper peach, flat peach, pear, apple, grape, pomegranate and pistachio and badam, the high-valued dry nut fruits in China, ripen one after another. The fruit harvest does not end until the beginning of November.
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