Question: When did Vincent wrote The Cherry Tree and how many orchards did he have?
About the article "Vincent van Gogh", section "Flowering Orchards".

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The series of "Flowering Orchards", sometimes referred to as the "Orchards in Blossom" paintings, were among the first groups of work that Van Gogh completed after his arrival in Arles, Provence in February 1888.
The 14 paintings in this group are optimistic, joyous and visually expressive of the burgeoning Springtime.
They are delicately sensitive, silent, quiet and unpopulated.
About "The Cherry Tree" Vincent wrote to Theo on 21 April 1888 and said he had 10 orchards and: "one big (painting) of a cherry tree, which I've spoiled".
The following spring he painted another smaller group of orchards, including "View of Arles, Flowering Orchards".
Van Gogh was taken by the landscape and vegetation of the South of France, and often visited the farm gardens near Arles.
Because of the vivid light supplied by the Mediterranean climate his palette significantly brightened.
From his arrival, he was interested in capturing the effect of the seasons on the surrounding landscape and plant life.
When Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 fruit trees in the orchards were about to bloom.
The blossoms of the apricot, peach and plum trees motivated him, and within a month he had created fourteen paintings of blossoming fruit trees.
Excited by the subject matter, Van Gogh completed nearly one painting a day.
Around April 21 Van Gogh wrote to Theo, that he "will have to seek something new, now the orchards have almost finished blossoming."
Flowering trees represented a source of spiritual renewal for Van Gogh.
In 1883 Theo wrote to his brother of the symbolism of the flowering tree, seeing the evidence of rebirth like the "man who finally produces something poignant as the blossom of a hard, difficult life, is a wonder, like the black hawthorn, or better still the gnarled old apple tree which at certain moments bears blossoms which are among the most delicate and virginal things under the sun."
In 1888, Van Gogh became inspired in southern France and began the most productive period of his painting career.
He sought the brilliance and light of the sun which would obscure the detail, simplifying the subjects.
It also would make the lines of composition clearer.
This effect would suit his ambition to create the simple patterns he appreciated in Japanese woodblocks.
Arles, he said, was "the Japan of the South."
Van Gogh found in the south that colors were more vivid.
Pairs of complementary colors, such as "the red and green of the plants, the woven highlights of oranges and blue in the fence, even the pink clouds that enliven the turquoise sky" — create an intensity through their pairing.
Mancoff says of flowering trees and this work,"In his flowering trees, Vincent attained a sense of spontaneity, freeing himself from the strict self-analytical approach he took in Paris.
In "Almond Tree in Blossom," Vincent used the light, broken strokes of impressionism and the dabs of colour of divisionism for a sparkling surface effect.
The distinctive contours of the tree and its position in the foreground recall the formal qualities of Japanese prints.
"The southern region and the flowering trees seems to awakened Van Gogh from his doldrums into a state of clear direction, hyper-activity and good cheer.
He wrote, "I am up to my ears in work for the trees are in blossom and I want to paint a Provençal orchard of astonishing gaiety."
While in the past a very active period would have drained him, this time he was invigorated.
To paint the flowering orchards Van Gogh contended with the winds which were so strong that he drove pegs into the ground to which he fastened his easel.
Even so, he found painting the orchards "too lovely" to miss. 
Stuart published about 460 short stories.
He wrote his first short story "Nest Egg" when he was a sophomore in high school in 1923.
The story is of a rooster at his farm, whose behavior was so dominant that it began attracting hens from other farms, leading to conflict with the neighbors.
Twenty years later, he submitted the story unchanged to the "Atlantic Monthly," which accepted the story and published it in February 1943; it was later collected in "Tales from Plum Grove Hills.
"One of his most anthologized stories is "Split Cherry Tree," first published in "Esquire," January 1939.
In this story, a high school teacher in a one-room schoolhouse keeps a boy after school to work and pay for damage he did to a cherry tree.
The boy's uneducated father comes to school to argue with the teacher, but comes to appreciate the value of higher education. 
The name damson derives from the earlier term "damascene", and ultimately from the Latin "prunum damascenum", "plum of Damascus".
One commonly stated theory is that damsons were first cultivated in antiquity in the area around the ancient city of Damascus, capital of modern-day Syria, and were introduced into England by the Romans.
The historical link between the Roman-era "damascenum" and the north and west European damson is rather tenuous despite the adoption of the older name, particularly as the "damascenum" described by the Roman authors has more of the character of a sweet dessert plum.
Nevertheless, remnants of damsons are sometimes found during archaeological digs of ancient Roman camps across England, and they have clearly been cultivated, and consumed, for centuries.
Damson stones have been found in the fosse at the Hungate, York, and dated to the late period of Anglo-Saxon England.
The exact origin of "Prunus domestica" subsp.
"insititia" is still extremely debatable: it is often thought to have arisen in wild crosses, possibly in Asia Minor, between the sloe, "Prunus spinosa", and "prunus cerasifera", the cherry plum.
Despite this, tests on cherry plums and damsons have indicated that it is possible that the damson developed directly from forms of sloe, perhaps via the round-fruited varieties known as bullaces, and that the cherry plum did not play a role in its parentage.
"Insititia" plums of various sorts, such as the German "Krieche" or Dutch "kroosjes", occur across Europe and the word "damson" is sometimes used to refer to them in English, but many of the English varieties from which the name "damson" was originally taken have both a different typical flavour and pear-shaped (pyriform) appearance compared to continental forms.
Hogg commented that "the Damson seems to be a fruit peculiar to England.
We do not meet with it abroad, nor is any mention of it made in any of the pomological works or nurseryman's catalogues on the Continent".
In addition to its fruit, the damson makes a tough hedge or windbreak, and it became the favoured hedging tree in certain parts of the country such as Shropshire and Kent.
As time progressed, a distinction developed between the varieties known as "damascenes" and the (usually smaller) types called "damsons", to the degree that by 1891 they were the subject of a lawsuit when a Nottinghamshire grocer complained about being supplied one when he had ordered the other.
There is a body of mainly anecdotal evidence that damsons were used in the British dye and cloth manufacturing industries in the 18th and 19th centuries, with examples occurring in every major damson-growing area (Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Westmoreland, Shropshire and Worcestershire).
However this may not have represented a wide-scale industry: a 2005 report for conservancy body English Nature concluded that "there seems no evidence that damsons were used extensively or techniques using them developed".
The main use of damsons in the industrial era was in commercial jam-making, and orchards were widespread until the Second World War, after which changing tastes and the relatively high cost of British-grown fruit caused a catastrophic decline.
The damson was introduced into the American colonies by English settlers before the American Revolution.
It was regarded as thriving better in the continental United States than other European plum varieties; many of the earliest references to European plums in American gardens concern the damson.
A favourite of early colonists, the tree has escaped from gardens and can be found growing wild in states such as Idaho. 
Cherry pickers were originally designed for use in orchards (though not just cherry orchards) where they are still used frequently.
It lets the fruit picker pick fruit high in a tree with relative ease.
Similar devices, also known as 'cherry pickers', are used to service telephone, cable television, and electrical equipment on utility poles.
Christmas light displays and banners can also be affixed with a cherry picker.
Some fire trucks have a cherry picker, known as a snorkel, instead of a ladder.
Some window cleaners also use them.
Cherry pickers are also used in mining, construction, exterior painting, and sometimes by arborists to work safely in otherwise unclimbable trees.
Cherry pickers were also used for the Mayor of London's "Hatwalk" in July 2012.
Cherry pickers were used to put hats onto the heads of some of the city's most iconic statues, including the statue of Admiral Lord Nelson atop Nelson's Column in Central London's Trafalgar Square.
Cherry pickers are also used to rescue people from roller coasters if the cars are stuck.
In the film and television industry, cherry pickers are known as "condors" and are often used to suspend large lights above sets when not on a soundstage.
Some artists use cherry pickers on stage for effects, most notably Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber and Kanye West.
Jackson would use one on his tours performing Beat It and Earth Song from above the crowd.
Bieber used one on an acoustic set which featured Be Alright and Fall during his Believe Tour.
West used one on his song Dark Fantasy which was usually the opening of his concerts.
Ceramic boom lifts can be utilised for specialised work in confined spaces, however, they are not as common as scissor lifts.