CHAP. XLII. .  ROSA‘CER. ARMENISACA. 683 
Garden. The best variety for producing fruit, as a standard, is the Breda 
apricot. (Encyc. of Gard., ed. 1835, p. 918.) It is also a very handsome- 
growing plant, and its blossom buds, before they are expanded, are of a most 
beautiful and brilliant scarlet. There is a blotched-leaved variety of this kind 
of apricot. Price of plants the same as of those of the almond. 
¥ 2. A. pasyca’RPA Pers. The thick-fruited Apricot Tree. 
Identification. Pers. Syn., 2. p. 36.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 532. ; Don’s Mill. 2. p. 497. 
Synonymes. A. atropurpirea Lois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p.172.; Priinus dasycérpa Ehrh. Bettr., 6. 
p. 90.; P. Armeniaca nigra Desf. Cat., ed 2. p.206.; the black Apricot. 
Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t. 51. f. 1.; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1250. ; and our figs. 400, 401 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, acuminate, doubly 
serrate. Petioles glanded. Flowers upon thread- 
a shaped pedicels. In the flow- 
A: ers of a plant in the Geneva 
Botanic Garden, the calyx 
was purple, and 6-lobed; the ,~ _ 
petals were 6; and the sta- | © 
mens 24. Native country not 
known. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 
352.) A tree with a twisted . 
trunk, resembling the common apricot, but smaller. 
Introduced in 1800, and flowering in April. It merits 
cultivation for its flowers, which are generally white, 
but which, in this country, from the earliness of their 
a( “ae appearance, are not often succeeded by fruit, unless the 
ae tree is planted against a wall, when it can be protected 
bynetting. Trees of this kind are particularly desirable as standards among 
evergreens, planted on warm sandy declivities 402 
facing the south. They are also very desirable 
in the composition of spring-flowering hedges. 

Variety. 
¥ A.d. 2 persicifolia Lois. (N. Du Ham., 
5. p. 172. t. 52. f. 1.; and our jig. 402.) 
Abricot noir a Feuilles de Pécher, 
Ir. The Peach-leaved thick-fruited 
Apricot. — Leaves ovate and short, 
or lanceolate, with small lobes. Flesh 
of the fruit red, variegated with pale 
yellow. In Don’s Miller, this kind is 
made a species. In the Nouveau Du 
Hamel, it is stated to be a very slight 
variety, which can only be continued 
by budding. 
¥ 3. A. (v.) siBi’R1cA Pers. The Siberian Apricot Tree. 
Identification. Pers. Syn., 2. p 36. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 532.; Don’s MilL, 2. p. 498. 
Synonyme. Primus sibirica Lin. Sp., 679. 
Engravings. Ammann Stirp. Ruth., 272. t. 29.; Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 8.; and our plate in Vol. IT. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate acuminate, of the form of these of the 
beech. The petioles long and glandless. Fruit small. A native of moun- 
tainous districts in the most remote parts of Siberia. Persoon has stated 
(Syn., ii. p.36.) that it varies with leaves linear-lanceolate. (Dec. Prod., 
ii. p. 532.) A tree, having the general appearance of the common apricot, 
_ but smaller in its parts. According to Pallas, it is chiefly found in the 
Russian empire, on the mountains of Dahuria, growing upon the face of 
perpendicular rocks exposed to the sun. These low trees, in such situa- 
tions, do not attain a greater height than that of a man; but they have 
trunks the thickness of the wrist, a rough and black bark, and hard wood. 
The Siberian apricot flowers in May, about the same time as the Rhodo- 

