172 APRICOTS. 



PURPLE PEACH-LEAVED. Pr. cat. 



Black ■peach-leaved. 



Feach-leavcd. 



Abricotier a feuillcs de Pecker, ^ N D 1 



Armcniaca persiccrfolia, ^ 



Purple fruited. 



This is a variety of the precedinc:, and ahhough the foliage 

 is very different, the leaves of this being longer, narrower, and 

 irregularly indented, still it is so closely allied in reality, that 

 branches will often present themselves on the trees of this va- 

 riety, bearing the foliage of the other, and by their great con- 

 trast on the same tree, they form a striking singularity. Some- 

 times the lower section of a branch will exhibit the broad 

 foliage of the preceding one, and the upper section of it the 

 narrow leaves peculiar to this. The fruit is the same as the 

 other variety, and the tree equally hardy. 



SIBERLVN. Pk. cat. 



Abricotier de Sib^rie. N. Duh. 



Armeniaca Sibirica. N. Duh. Pers. synop. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Prunus Sibirica. Lin. Pall. Gmcl. Wild. Lond. Hort. cat, 

 {Siberian Almond. Pr. cat. 25 ed. 



The present is a distinct species ; the leaves are oval, acute, 

 dentat^d, and supported upon long petioles, measuring six lines 

 or thereabout ; the fruit is sessile, the size of a small plum, and 

 covered with a velvety skin, which is yellow on the shaded side, 

 and bright red next the sun ; the flesh, of which there is not a 

 great deal, is fibrous, almost dry, and of acid flavour ; the 

 stone contains a kernel which is slightly bitter. This species 

 is originally from Siberia, where it grows in mountainous Ideal- 

 ities, and it is seldom cultivated except in Botanic gardens. It 

 is known in general under the title of Siberian Almond, and is 

 so placed in the 25th edition of my catalogue, but Duhamel 

 having ranged it in the class of apricots, I have now adopted 

 the same course. In the London Horticultural Society's cata- 

 logue, this is confused with the Peach-leaved apricot, and the 

 two are united as one fruit, when none whateyer are more 

 widely distinct. 



