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Skin, clear, deep yellow on the shaded side, but dark rusty brown on 

 the side next the sun. Stalk, inserted in a deep and narrow cavity. 

 Flesh, deep orange or reddish yellow, juicy and melting, separating 

 from the stone ; rich, sugary, and briskly flavoured, but, when highly 

 ripened, charged with a fine aroma. Stone, broad and ovate, imper- 

 vious. Kernel, sweet. 



Kipe in the end of July. The tree is of very slender growth, with 

 strong brown shining shoots. 



There seems some confusion among pomologists regarding this. Diel makes it 

 synonymous with Abricot Gros Orange, and I have met with it in some London 

 nurseries under the name of Orange, where it caused great embarrassment by the 

 difficulty of its propagation, for the true Orange Apricot takes freely on the stocks 

 usually employed for apricots ; this, however, as Bretonnerie says, requires to be 

 budded on the almond. I quite agree with the author of the Luxemberg Cata- 

 logue in making Angoumcis synonymous with Violet, the Violet of Duhamel 

 being a very similar variety, if not identical. It is evident that it is not the 

 Prunus dasycarpa he refers to when describing the Violet, for, at page 142, t. 1, 

 he mentions Abricot Noir as being grown at Trianon, the description of which is 

 clearly that of Prunus dasycarpa. 



Ananas. See Breda. 

 Ananas. See Pine Apple. 

 Angoumois Hatif. See Angoumois. 

 Anjou. See Angoumois. 

 Anson's. See Moorpark. 



A TKOCHETS. An excellent variety of the Peach Apricot, which 

 blooms much later than that variety, and consequently is a better 

 bearer, as its blossoms escape the early spring frosts. It was raised 

 at Angers by M. Millet, in 1840, and he named it A Trochets from the 

 circumstance of its producing the fruit in clusters. 



Aveline. See Breda. 



BEAUGE. A large variety of the Peach Apricot, ripening later 

 than it in the middle of September. 



BELLE DE TOULOUSE. A very excellent late variety of the 

 Peach Apricot ; the latest of all. 



BLACK (Noir; Du Pape ; Purple}. Fruit, small, about the size 

 and shape of a small Orleans plum, to which it bears some resemblance. 

 Skin, of a purple colour on the side exposed to the sun, but reddish 

 yellow on the shaded side, and covered with a delicate down. Flesh, 

 reddish yellow, adhering a little to the stone, juicy but tasteless, 

 insipid, and quite worthless to eat. Stone, small, impervious on the 

 back. Kernel, bitter. 



Ripe in the beginning of August. The tree grows from ten to 

 fifteen feet high, and is more fitted for an ornamental than a fruit-tree. 



