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considering the question of hardiness of blossom, 

 although the latter quality deserves preeminent 

 attention. 



FITTING THE APRICOT TO NEW CLIMATES 



The apricot, both as a canned and as a 

 dried product, is becoming better known and 

 more highly appreciated year by year. If 

 a variety could be produced that would grow 

 in wider territories, unimpaired by the vicissi- 

 tudes of climate of our North- Central States, 

 this fruit would probably become as impor- 

 tant as the apple and be quite as extensively 

 grown. And enough has already been accom- 

 plished to justify us in asserting that the pros- 

 pects of extending the culture of this fruit into 

 territories that are now prohibited is extremely 

 good. 



Already there is a variety of medium size 

 called the Royal that grows in many regions 

 where other apricots refuse to produce fruit, and 

 there are a few other varieties that somewhat 

 approach it. These offer special material for 

 further selection, and by combining such selec- 

 tion with skillful hybridizing the plant experi- 

 menter should be able to produce an apricot that 

 will stand quite unrivaled among all the stone 

 fruits. 



