96 APRICOTS. 



firm, sweet, juicy, and high-flavoured, with a slight degree 

 of acidity. Stone large, oval, not adhering to the flesh, 

 blunt at each end, with scarcely any passage in the edge. 



Kernel slightly bitter ; much less so than in the Moor- 

 park. 



Ripe the beginning of August, a week or ten days before 

 the Moorpark. Raised a few years ago in the royal garden 

 of the Luxembourg, and first noticed in the Bon Jardinier 

 of 1826, where it is considered as a better fruit than that of 

 the Moorpark. 



13. TURKET. Miller, No. 5. Pom. Mag. i. 25. 

 Large Turkey. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 26. 



Fruit about the middle size, in form nearly spherical, not 

 compressed like the Moorpark. Skin very handsome deep 

 yellow, with a number of rich, brownish, orange-red spots 

 and blotches next the sun. Flesh pale yellow, firm, juicy, 

 sweet, with a little acid, very rich and excellent. Stone se- 

 parating freely, in figure like that of the Moorpark, but with- 

 out the pervious passage. Kernel quite sweet, like that of 

 an almond. 



Ripe about the middle or latter end of August. 



The Turkey and Roman Apricots are continually con- 

 founded with each other, and yet their characters are obvi- 

 ously and clearly distinct. The Turkey is spherical, more 

 deeply coloured, with a sweet kernel ; the Roman is some- 

 what oval, slightly compressed, dull straw-coloured, and has 

 a very bitter kernel, it also ripens a few days sooner. 



The Abricot de Nancy of Duhamel (fructu maximo com- 

 presso, as he defines it) has been quoted in the Pom. Mag. 

 as a synonym of the Turkey ; but the well-known globular, 

 uncompressed character of the latter, leads me to consider 

 it as an accidental mistake. 



14. WHITE MASCULINE. Forsyth, Ed. 7. No. 5. 

 Abricot Blanc. Duhamel, No. 2. 



Fruit similar to that of the Red Masculine in size and 

 figure. Skin nearly white ; a pale straw colour on the side 

 next the wall, but of a pale yellow, shaded and mottled with 

 a reddish brown, on the side next the sun. Flesh white 

 very delicate, and adheres slightly to the stone. Juice sweet, 

 with an agreeable peach-like flavour. Kernel bitter. 



Ripe the end of July. 



This succeeds the Red Masculine in its time of ripening, 

 and in France it is considered the better fruit of the two ; but 



