Interviewed by myfruit.it, Poli notes: "There was a great flowering from the North to the South of the Peninsula, driven in part also by the spring cold of last year, which had caused stress to the plants and therefore made them in some way react with the new season. For now, therefore, things have progressed on a regular basis, although the drought question obviously remains open. At the moment the plants, especially the secular ones, are not suffering; popular wisdom also teaches us this, which has coined ah hoc proverbs. For example, For San Lorenzo always on time, or on 10 August, San Lorenzo's day, there would still be room for a good year. Or, again, For Santa Maria the brown makes the cria (that is, the brown, on August 15, forms her creature, ed). But, apart from these sayings, the chestnut is a plant that can drink, with its leaves, the dew of the night, and less than other species it suffers from drought. Then, obviously, precipitation will be needed for the development ...