**Because of the climate of the north and its shorter growing seasons many of the fruits listed below would be obtained by trade. Many of them are dried and can be stored for later use, either in baking or cooking.**

Apricots

"I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices."
Tribesmen of Gor, pg 45

Dates

A veiled woman was hawking dates by the tefa.
Tribesmen of Gor, pg 46

"The principal export of the oasis (Tahari) are dates, or pressed-date bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. They will then yield fruit for more than a century. A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

A handful with the five fingers closed, not open, is a tef. Six such handfuls constitute a tefa, which is a tiny basket. Five such baskets constitute a huda."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 46

Larma

"I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone."
Players of Gor, pg 267

"On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion, to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood. Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh."
Tribesmen of Gor, pgs 27-28

"He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum."
Kajira of Gor, pg 216

"He then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with a sound that seemed partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented endocarp. He seemed to make a great deal of noise. Although one or two of the girls stirred uneasily, none, to my relief, awakened. Harold was now fishing about, still chewing on the fruit,... "
Nomads of Gor, pg 220

Melons

Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me.
Tribesmen of Gor

"A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported....various sorts of melons,...."
Tribesmen of Gor, pg 37

Peaches

"Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh. These devices, incidentally, may be used even by a slave girl who hates her master but whose body, trained to love, cannot endure the absence of the masculine caress."
Tribesmen of Gor, pgs 27 � 28

Plums

"... I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums. Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise...."
Tribesmen of Gor, pg 45

"He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum."

Kajira of Gor, pg 216

Raisins

"... I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey;..."
Tribesmen of Gor, pg 47

"He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum."
Kajira of Gor, pg 216

Ramberries

"A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the many small seeds."
Captive of Gor, pg 305

Ta-grapes

The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos"
Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 45

"I retrieved a grape about the size of a small plum from the table before it could be cleared away. It was peeled and pitted, doubtless laboriously by female slaves. It was a Ta-Grape."
Players of Gor, pg 291

Tospits

"She had been carrying tospits and vegetables to the deck locker, to fill it."
Marauders of Gor, pg 289

The tospits, in the Forkbeard�s orchard, which can grow at this latitude, as the larma cannot, were too green to eat. I smiled, recalling that tospits almost invariably have an odd number of seeds, saving the rarer, long-stemmed variety. I do not care too much for tospits, as they are quite bitter. Some men like them. They are commonly used, sliced and sweetened with honey, and in syrups, and to flavor, with their juices, a variety of dishes. They are also excellent in the prevention of nutritional deficiencies at sea, in long voyages, containing, I expect, a great deal of vitamin C. They are sometimes called the seaman�s larma. They are a fairly hard-fleshed fruit, and are not difficult to dry and store. On the serpents they are carried in small barrels, usually kept, with vegetables, under the overturned keel of the longboat.
Marauders of Gor