146 



BREDA APRICOT. 



Breda. Hart. Cat. no. 2. 



Abricot de HoUande, ou Amande Aveline. Ibid. no. 44 ; 



Duhamel, Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, torn. i. p. 138, 



plate iv. ; and of other French authors. 

 HoU'andische, Bredaische, oder Ananas Apricose, (Abricot 



de Hollande, ou Amande Aveline). Taschenbuch^ p. 338. 

 Die HoUandische Apricose, Orange Apricose, (Abricot d'Hol- 



lande, ou de Breda). Kraft's Pomona Austriaca, vol. i. 



p. 29. tab. 57. 

 L'Abricot de Hollande, ou de Breda, ou Amande Aveline ; 



Die HoUandische, Bredaische, oder Orange Apricose, die 



Hasselnussmandel. Mayer's Pom. Franconica, torn. i. 



p. 33. 

 Royal Persian. Hort. Cat. no. 23. 

 Brussels, or Breda. Langley's Pomona, p. 89. Jig. in. pi. xv. 



The Hemskirke, Turkey, Royal, and Large 

 Early Apricots, already figured in the Pomological 

 Magazine, are of great importance, on account of 

 their size and rich flavour. The Breda, although not 

 so large as these, claims, on some other accounts, 

 an important rank. In regard to flavour, it is excel- 

 lent ; and it may not perhaps be generally known, 

 that in ordinary seasons it bears remarkably well on 

 standards. Although the fruit is smaller, yet the 

 flavour is rendered so delicious as to make amends. 



The Breda Apricot is stated by Miller to have 

 been so called from its having been brought from 



