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Early Golden. 



Dubois' Early Golden, | Dubois' Early Golden Apricot. 



Raised by Charles Dubois, Fishkill Landing, N. Y. Tree, thrifty 

 yet close wood, hardy, productive, and said to bear considerable of 

 late frosts without injury to the blossom. 



Fruity small, one and a quarter inch diameter, roundish oval, 

 narrow suture ; skin^ smooth,, pale orange ; fiesh^ orange, moder- 

 ately juicy and sweet, but not high flavor ; separates from the stone ; 

 kernel^ sweet. Season^ 10th to 15th July. Very valuable as a 

 market variety. 



Large Early. 



Gros Precoce, I De St. Jean Eou^e, 

 De St. Jean, J Gros D'Alexandrie, 

 Gros Freche. 



Tliis proves to be the finest large early apricot known, and an 

 abundant bearer : foliage, large, leaves, tapering toward the foot- 

 stalks, with little ear-like appendages in place of glands. 



Fruit, medium size, oblong compressed ; suture^ deep ; skUi , 

 downy, pale orange in the shade ; fine bright orange with a few 

 ruddy spots in the sun ; flesh, pale orange, rich, juicy, separates 

 freely from the stone ; stone, brown, much flattened, oval, perfora- 

 ted along the back from base to apex ; kernel, bitter. Season^ 

 10th to 15th July. 



MOORPARK. 



Anson's, 

 Dunmore, 



Sudlow's Moorpark, 

 Oldaker's Moorpark, 

 De Nancy, 

 Anson's Imperial, 

 Peche, 

 Peche Gros, 



Temple's, 

 Dunmore 's Breda, 

 Hunt's Moorpark, 

 Walton Moorpark, 

 Peach, 

 Royal Peach, 

 Aiiricot Peche, 

 Wurtemhurg:. 



This variety has its name from Moorpark, the seat of Sir William 

 Temple, who began gardening in England about 1672, and previous 

 to his decease, in 1698, this variety w^as cultivated. Moderate bearer. 

 Fruit, large, roundish, about two and a quarter inches. diameter 

 each way, larger on one side of the suture than the other ; skin, 

 orange in the shade, but deep orange or brownish red in the sun, 

 marked with numerous carmine specks and dots; flesh, firm, bright 

 orange, parting free from the stone, quite juicy, with a rich and lus« 

 cious flavor ; stone, uneven, peculiarly perforated along the back 



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