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THE APRICOT. 



12. ROYAL. Thomp. Nois. P. Mag. 



A fine large French variety, raised a few years since at the 

 Royal Luxembourg gardens. It is nearly as large as the 

 Moorpark, but with larger leaves borne on long footstalks, and 

 without the pervious stone of that sort. It is quite as high fla 

 voured and ripens a week or ten days earlier. 



Fruit roundish, large, oval, slightly compressed. Skin dull 

 yellow, with an orange cheek, very faintly tinged with red, and 

 a shallow suture. Flesh pale orange, firm and juicy, with a 

 rich vinous flavour. Ripe the latter end of July. 



13. RED MASCULINE. Thomp. Lind. 



Early Masculine. 



Brown Masculine. 



Abricot precoce, ) n ^ , 



Abricot hatif musquee', $ U ' Lhih ' 



Abricotier hatif. N. Duh. 



Abricotier. 



Friihne Muscateller. 



The Red Masculine is a good deal cultivated with us. It is 

 very hardy, ripens the earliest, and bears very regularly and 

 well. On the other hand the fruit is quite small, and only of 

 second rate flavour. It is likely, therefore, to give place to the 

 Large Early, which ripens only a few days later, and is much 

 superiour. 



Fruit small and nearly round, scarcely an inch and a half in 

 diameter, with a well marked suture on one side. Skin bright 

 yellow, tinged with deep orange and spotted with dark red on 

 the sunny side. Flesh yellow, juicy, with a slightly musky, 

 pleasant flavour. Stone thick, obtuse at the ends. Flowers 

 smaller than in most other sorts. Kernel bitter. Ripe about 

 the 12th of July. 



14. SHIPLEYS. Thomp. 



Blenheim. 

 Shipley's Large. 



This is a new variety which we have lately received from 

 England, and which is not yet fully proved in this country. It 

 has the reputation of being nearly equal to the Moorpark, and 

 more productive, while it is next in point of earliness to the 

 Large Early. 



Fruit large, oval, orange, with a deep yellow, juicy, and tole- 

 rably rich flesh. Stone roundish, impervious, with a bitter 

 kernel. Ripens here about the 25th of July. 



