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ROYAL APRICOT. 



Abricot Royal, Bo7i Jardinier for 1827, p. 288. Noisette 

 Manuel complet du Jardinier, 2. 490. Hort. Soc. Cat. of 

 Fruits, p. 7. No. 50. 



The authors of the Bon Jardinier, in which work 

 this first appeared in 1826, pronounce the present 

 variety to be even superior to the Moor-park, their 

 Abricot P^che, and with some justice. It ripens 

 from a week to ten days before that kind, possesses 

 all its good qualities, and is less subject to be imper- 

 fectly matured on one side. Its flesh when bruised 

 becomes transparent. It may be readily distin- 

 guished from the Moor-park, not only by these 

 characters, but also by the passage in the edge of 

 its stone being scarcely pervious, by its form being- 

 less compressed, and by its not acquiring the size 

 of the Moor-park. 



Raised a few years since in the Royal Garden 

 of the Luxembourg, whence a plant was sent to the 

 Horticultural Society by M. Hervy the Director. 



Our drawing was made from specimens produced 

 in the Chiswick Garden. 



Wood strong, rather longer jointed than in the 

 Moor-park ; when ripe, closely marked with pale 

 transverse specks, appearing through the openings 

 in the epidermis. 



