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THE TURKEY APRICOT. 



turkey. Miller's Diet. ed. 8, ?io. 5. Hort. Sac. Fruit Cat. 



no. 26. 

 Large Turkey, of some Nurseries. 

 Abricot de Nancy. Duhamel, Traitt des Arhres Fruitiers, 



vol. i. p. 144, tab. 6. 



An excellent Apricot, scarcely known in the 

 Gardens of this country, but in good quality little 

 inferior to the Moorpark, from which it is to be 

 certainly distinguished by its figure being round, not 

 compressed ; its skin much more transparent, and less 

 deeply stained with red ; its stone without an open 

 passage through it; and especially by its kernel 

 being sweet like an almond, not bitter. 



About London it ripens on a south wall in the 

 middle of August ; on an east or west wall it would, 

 of course, arrive at perfection rather later. No 

 garden in which Apricots are valued should be 

 without this. 



Duhamel says that it is sometimes called the 

 Abricot Peche : but we believe all the trees in this 

 country known by that name are the Moorpark. 



Wood strong, short-jointed, rather warted at 

 the lower end of the yearling branches; Buds not 

 particularly prominent. 



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