The bright yellow color of the Tilton apricot is retained even in dried apricots that can be eaten during the Winter, and the Tilton Apricot tree produces a large heavy crop of fruit in June or July. The price of fruit at the grocery store is so high that gardeners feel that the right thing to do is to plant Tilton Apricot Trees to save on grocery prices. The apricot was the alleged fruit given to Caesar Augustus by his wife, Livia, to poison him so that her son could become commander in chief and the new Caesar, Tiberius. An apricot orchard of planted Tilton Apricot trees is heavy bearing and resistant to late Spring frosts.