Apricot Growing in Western New York. 291 



REVIEW. 



1. The apricot is adapted to cultivation in Western New York, 

 and it is already grown to a commercial extent. 



2. The chief general difficulties in the way of its cultivation, 

 aside from ignorance concerning the fruit, are the habit of early 

 blooming and consequent liability to injury by late spring frosts, 

 and the ravages of the curculio. 



3. Injury from frost is to be avoided by choosing frostless loca- 

 tions, as those adjoining bodies of water, and by avoiding too 

 "early" lands. 



4. The curculios can be kept in check when they are caught 

 and killed ; and this is best done by jarring them onto sheets, in 

 the same manner long followed in plum and peach orchards. 



5. It is not yet certain what are the best stocks for apricots in 

 Western New York. It is probable that no one stock is best 

 under all circumstances. The apricot root itself seems to be im- 

 patient of our cold and wet soils, which are drenched by the 

 drainage of winter. It needs a very deep and rich soil, but it is 

 doubtful if it is safe for this state. The common plum (not myro- 

 balan) is an excellent stock for plum soils, and the apricot does 

 well either nursery-budded or top-worked upon it. Peach is prob- 

 ably the commonest stock, and for peach soils it is probably the 

 best that can be used. If the apricot thrives upon various stocks, 

 it is thereby adapted to many soils. 



6. The cultivation, pruning and care of the apricot are not 

 unlike the attention given to the peach ; and it may be expected 

 to be about as productive as the peach. 



7. There are three species of apricots in cultivation in Western 

 New York,— ^he Black or Purple, the Japanese or Chinese, and 

 the common types. 



8. The Black or Purple apricot i^Prumis dasycarpa), of un- 

 known nativity, is a fruit of comparatively small merit. The 

 fruits are round and plum-like, stalked, fuzzy, very dark red in 

 skin and flesh, the latter soft and subacid and clinging tightly to 

 the pit. It is not grown for market. 



9. The Japanese or Chinese apricot {Pninus Mu?ne), native to 

 Japan, is represented in this state chiefly by the Bungo or Bun- 



