94 APRICOTS. 



orange, succulent, and well flavoured. Stone small, orbicu- 

 lar, thick in the middle, and nearly smooth, not separating 

 clean from the flesh. Kernel sweet, like that of the Breda 

 and Turkey. 



Ripe the beginning and middle of August. 



8. Peach Apricot. Forsyth. Ed. 3. No. 9. 

 Abricot Peche. Pom. Franc, t. 7. f. 10. 

 Abricot Peche. Duhamel. Vol. i. p. 145. 

 Abricot de Nancy. Ih. No. 10. t. 6. 

 Imperial Anson's. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 5. 



Fruit very large, frequently from eight to nine inches in 

 circumference, deeply hollowed at its base, and compressed 

 on its sides. Suture well defined, with a thickening on one 

 of its sides. Skin pale yellow in the shade ; but of a deep 

 orange, shaded, and mottled with dark brown, on the sunny 

 side. Flesh firm, deep orange, and full of a very high-fla- 

 voured juice. Stone with a pervious passage, and a bitter 

 kernel. 



Ripe, end of August and beginning of September. 



The Peach Apricot is supposed by some to be the same 

 as the Moorpark ; and, indeed, it has all its leading charac- 

 ters ; but an extensive cultivation of it for more than twenty 

 years has convinced me to the contrary. Its wood is simi- 

 lar, but more gross, less firm, and the tree more tender. Mr. 

 Forsyth says it was introduced from Paris, by his Grace the 

 Duke of Northumberland, in 1767. It is the largest and 

 the best of all the apricots. A tree of this sort was plant- 

 ed in the gardens at Holkham forty years ago, where I have 

 seen fruit of an extraordinary size under the management of 

 Mr. Sandys, who has frequently had them of six ounces and 

 a half in weight, and in any season three of them would 

 weigh a pound avoirdupois. 



9. Purple. Pom. Franc, 1. p. 36. t. 5. f. 8. 

 Alexandrian Apricot. Jb. 



Abricot Angoumois. Dnhamel, No. 4. t. 3. 



Abricot Violet, of the Luxembourg Cat. 



Black Apricot. Forsyth, Ed. 3.' No. 10. 



Fruit nearly spherical, about five inches in circumference. 

 Suture deep, extending from the base to its apex. Skin co- 

 vered with a very fine velvety down, of a pale red on the 

 shaded side, of a deep red or purple on the side next the sun. 

 Flesh pale red, except near the stone, where it is of a deep 

 orange colour, from which it separates. Juice sub-acid, 



