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10. PEACH. Thomp. Fors, Lind. 



Anson's Imperial. 



Royal Peach. 



PSche. 



Abricot Peche. N. Duk. Pwi, 



De Nancy. O. Duk. 



Du Luxembourg. 



Peche Grosse. 



Wurtemburg. 



Pfirsiche. 



The Peach Apricot, originally from Piedmont, has long been 

 considered the finest variety ; and it is with us the largest and 

 most excellent sort cultivated being often as large as a Peach 

 of medium size, handsome, and of delicious flavour. It very 

 strongly resembles the Moorpark, but the two are readily dis- 

 tinguished by the eye when standing near each other, and the 

 fruit of the Peach is rather larger and finer, and a few days 

 earlier. 



Fruit of the largest size, about two and a half inches in di- 

 ameter, roundish, rather flattened, and somewhat compressed on 

 its sides, with a well marked suture. Skin yellow in the shade, 

 but deep orange, mottled with dark brown, on the sunny side. 

 Flesh of a fine yellow saffron colour, juicy, rich, and high fla- 

 voured. Stone with the same pervious passage as the Moor- 

 park, and with a bitter kernel. 



11. ROMAN. Thomp. Lind. 



Abricot Commun. O. Duk. 

 Genuine. 

 Grosse Genuine. 

 Transparent. 



This is with us one of the largest growing and hardiest Apri- 

 cot trees, and produces good crops every year in cold or unfa- 

 vourable situations, where none of the other sorts, except the 

 Masculine, succeed. It is, therefore, though inferior in flavour, 

 a valuable sort for northern situations. The blossoms will bear 

 quite a severe frost without injury. 



Fruit middle sized, oblong, with the sides slightly compressed, 

 with but little or no suture. Skin entirely pale yellow; or very 

 rarely dotted with a few red spots on one side. Flesh dull yel- 

 low, soft, rather dry. When ripened by keeping a few days ID 

 the house, the flavour is tolerably good. Stone oblong, with a 

 bitter kernel. Ripe the last of July and first of August. 



There is a BLOTCHED LEAVED ROMAN, (commun a feuilles 

 panachts, of the French,) precisely like the foregoing in all re- 

 spects, except the white or yellow stain in the leaf but it is 

 quite distinct from the Blotched leaved Turkey, cultivated here. 



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