Blossom Blossom In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus "Prunus") and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring. Colloquially, flowers of orange are referred to as such as well. Peach blossoms (including nectarine), most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are usually pink. Plum blossoms, apple blossoms, orange blossoms, some cherry blossoms, and most almond blossoms are white. Blossoms provide pollen to pollinators such as bees, and initiate cross-pollination necessary for the trees to reproduce by producing fruit. Blossom trees have a tendency to lose their
Virgil Blossom School. Blossom wrote about his experiences in Little Rock in a memoir, "It Has Happened Here" (1959). Blossom married Clarence Thomas Tribble on August 2, 1934. The couple had two children, Bettie Sue (born 1938), and Gail (born 1940). While in Fayetteville, Blossom was a member of the Lion's Club, Freemasons, Consistory, Knights Templar, and the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. Virgil Blossom Virgil T. Blossom (born October 31, 1906 – 1965) was an American educator. Blossom is best known for his time in Little Rock, Arkansas as Superintendent of Schools (1953–1958) during the Little Rock Crisis. In 1955, after the