THE CURCULIO. 47 



American Pomological Society's List of Apricots. 



Breda, Early Golden, 



Large Early, Large Red, 



La Fayette, Moorpark, 



Orange, Peach, 



Red Masculine, St. Ambroise. 

 Turkey, 



American Pomological Society's List of Nectarines. 



Boston, Downton, 



Early Newington, Early Violet, 



Elruge, Stanwick. 



I have nothing to say on the cultivation of fruit trees in general. The instruc- 

 tions in the books are ample. But upon the management of the Apricot Orchard 

 some account of my own experience may be appropriate here. I commenced with 

 ten trees, five from a North River Nursery, and five from Andre Leroy, France. 

 The former had been budded near the ground on Plum roots, and were Apricot trees. 

 The latter were budded five or six feet up on Plum trees making Apricot tops on 

 Plum stocks. The former never grew large and soon died the latter grew as large 

 as Plum trees and were long-lived. 



A few years' experience proved, that in that particular situation, as to climate, 

 soil, and exposure, I could have as regular and full crops of apricots as of plums, and 

 with no more trouble from the Curculio. I changed whole orchards of young plum 

 trees, then just beginning to bear, by budding; inserting the apricot buds into all the 

 branches of the young plum trees. The success was perfect; and in the third 

 summer such trees were bearing very valuable crops the fruit large and beautiful. 



The trunks of some Apricot trees, like those of some Cherry trees, in our cli- 

 mate, suffer badly from extremes of weather. This may be guarded against by 

 budding high up on the Plum. The Apricot bud early in the winter will bear a 

 greater degree of cold than the Peach bud, the latter being killed at a temperature 

 of 18 below zero. But the Apricot bud will begin to swell with the early warm days 

 of spring before the Peach bud shows any change, and then the liability to injury 

 from cold becomes reversed. 



By blossoming so much earlier than other fruit trees, the Apricot is considered 



