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AHBOHETl'M AND FR TTICE'lTM. 



I' ART III. 



dcndron dauricnm ; growing on the south sides of the mountains, while the 

 hitter grows on the north .skies. When both these plants are in flower, 

 Pallas observes, the north Miles of the mountains appear of a purple 

 eolour, ami the south of a rose colour. (/'/. 7i'<*.v.y., i. p. i:i.) In British 

 gardens, the Siberian aprieot forms a tree of nearly the same height as the 

 common apricot, of which it appears to us nothing more than a variety. 

 There is a specimen in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, 

 from which our figure \vas taken, and which, in lS'>.j, had attained tile 

 height of l^ft. in 10 years. It is propagated bv building on the plum; 

 and plants may be obtained in some of the nurseries at the usual price of 

 worked trees; vi/. l.v. (></. for dwarfs, and ^.v. CH(. for standards. 



i" 4. A. (v.) HRK.ANTI'AC A Peru. The Brianrou Apricot Tree. 



</<-nli.ricnti\m. IVrs. Syn., i. 1 . p. Sd. ; Dec. Trod., ','. p. .0 L>. ; Don'-- Mill., -J. p. -if is. 

 ynt'ti :/in,-s. 7'runus brigantiaca /'///. DUH/I/I., .;. p. .0,1;., D<c i'l 

 ' /V.,' No. .;>!'., Luis, in .V. l)u Hum., .'>. p. l.s.O. 

 Kngraings. N. l)u I Iain., .0. t. .0;i. ; ;iud miry/"-. 40 J. 



/tcc. C V<w., iyr. Leaves nearly heart-shaped, toothed 

 \\ ith numerous sharj) sub-imbricate teeth. Flowers 

 in groups, almost sessile, scarcely protruded before 

 the leaves. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 5,'>^. ) A native of 

 Dauphine, which Scringe suggests to be the same 

 as A. sibirica, and which, very probably, is only 

 another varietv of the common apricot. It grows 

 onjy in one locality in France, and in another in 

 Piedmont, where an oil called, commonly, in 

 France, huille de marmotte, has for a long time 

 been expressed from the seeds. In British gar- 

 dens, into which it was introduced in 18 li), it 

 grows to the height of 11 ft. or l.j ft. in 10 or 

 1^ years, flowering in March and April. 



/'HI' NTS Touni. Tm; PI.UM. Lin. Si/xt. Icos'mdria Monogynia. 



1,1,-nlijicatiun. Tourn. In.-t., t. J.OS. ; Juss. (.en., 341. ; Dec. Fl. Fr.,4. p. Jx.;. ; Prod'', p. ,O.JJ. ; Don's 



Mill., 'J. ]>. li'X. 



Si/n,,ni//n,:>i. I'run.'phora AV<7.. Klein., No. 71!'. ; 7 J n -nis sp. of /.//i. and others. 

 iJi-rii'titfun. Said to he a word of Asiatic origin ; the wild plant, according to Galon, being railed 



jifuitiniKia in Asia. '1'lie (irei-k name tor the plum \A /iri>ii>n~ : it occurs in Theophrastus. 



I)c.<ic/-ijjti(t, A/r. The species are chiefly deciduous low trees or shrubs, 

 mam of them spiny in a wild state; ; natives of Furope, Asia, and North 

 America; and generally thriving best on calcareous soils. Most of them bear 

 edible fruits ; and all of them have showy blossoms. In British gardens, they 

 are chieflv propagated by grafting, but some of them bv layers j and they will 

 grow in any soil that is tolerably free, and not overcharged with moisture. 

 The- epidermis of the bark of the plum, as \\ell as that of the cherry, and per- 

 haps that of some of the other genera of /Jmygdaloa 1 , is readily divisible trans- 

 versely, and may frequently be seen divided in this manner into rini, r s on the 

 tree. Upwards of SO species are enumerated in our Hurt us Jirifannictis ; but 

 ue question much if one half of them are not mere varieties. The prices of 

 mo-t of the kinds, in British nurseries, are from 1\. to l.v. (\tl. for dwarfs, 

 and i'.v. Cxi. for standards; at Boll w\ Her, I franc for d\\arfs, and :> francs for 

 standards; and at New York, .'>/.', cents for dwarfs, and 50 cents for 

 standards. 



Tr 1 . P. SIM\O V V\ /,. The Miinv IMum 



