APRICOT. 115 



and among" these Shipley's is the best. It scarcely dif- 

 fers from the Apricot Peclie of the French. 



ITemsJcirJce. — Like a small moorpark, but with a more 

 tender and juicy pulp, and with the rich flavor of a 

 green-gage plum ; kernel small, sweetish. A desirable 

 early fruit, ripening on an east wall in the end of July, 

 or beginning of August. 



Turkey. — Flowers large ; fruit middle-sized, spheri- 

 cal, deep yellow ; flesh juicy and rich, parting from the 

 stone, which Is impervious ; kernel sweet. This is an 

 excellent late variety. 



Besides these, w'e may mention the Large Early, the 

 White Masculine, Musch-musch, and Royal. The last 

 is a French variety of recent origin; it is excellent, and 

 ripens earlier than the moorpark. 



Apricots are propagated by budding on muscle or 

 common plum-stocks.. Mr. Knight recommends the 

 Avilding apricot as a stock for the Moorpark variety. 

 Some gardeners have adopted the horizontal form of 

 training, but the most usual, and certainly the best, is 

 the common fan arrangeme'nt ; for the taller the tree 

 the greater the produce of fruit. The fruit is produced 

 on shoots of the preceding year, and on small close 

 spurs formed on the two-year-old wood. The apricot 

 is a tree of much stronger growth than the peach, and 

 therefore requires more room ; this and the peculiarity 

 of the spurs being kept in mind, the observations made 

 on the training and pruning of the peach maybe readily 

 applied to this tree. It requires a summer and winter 

 pruning. The former shouM begin early in June, at 

 wdiich period all irregular fore-right and useless shoots 

 are to be pinched off"; and, shortly afterwards, those 

 which remain are to be fastened to the wall, to become 



