Because of that, apple trees for fruit production are seldom grown from seed. These practices were well developed by about 300 BCE, when Alexander the Great sent dwarf apple trees from Persia and Asia Minor back to Athens. Although now more strongly associated with the flowering of cherry trees, apple trees share blossom time in the Spring, typically through the month of May in England, for instance. In about 1927, Astrup painted Apple Tree in Bloom showing the trees in full blossom and marsh marigolds in flower. Domesticated apple trees were introduced to North America in the seventeenth century, from Europe.