The Blotched-leaved Turkey Apricot of the Nur- 

 series, which is the Abricot macul of the French, 

 is a variety of the Roman, differing only in having 

 variegated leaves. 



Bears abundantly on an east wall, where the 

 fruit ripens in the beginning of August : as a standard, 

 it acquires more colour and flavour. 



WOOD very smooth, rather short-jointed, reddish 

 brown, when young not much speckled, but be- 

 coming conspicuously so when older. BUDS pro- 

 minent. 



LEAVES large and broad, cordate, irregularly 

 crenated, between flat and concave : petioles about 

 an inch and a half long, brownish, with a few sessile, 

 globose glands. 



FLOWERS of the ordinary size and appearance. 



FRUIT middle-sized, dull straw-colour, with a 

 little dotting on the sunny side of orange or red, but 

 in such small quantity that the skin has always a 

 pallid appearance ; in form slightly compressed, 

 inclining to oval, with a shallow suture, through 

 which the fruit can be readily, when ripe, separated 

 into two halves by a slight pressure on each side of 

 the base, FLESH dull pale straw-colour, soft, dry, 

 mealy, with a little sweetness and acidity, but on 

 the whole very insipid and indifferent ; it is only 

 tolerable when rather unripe. STONE flat, oblong, 

 rather obtuse at each end, with a very even surface, 

 separating wholly from the flesh, except at the 

 base : it is generally divided from the flesh by a 

 little cavity when the fruit is fully ripe. KERNEL 

 very bitter. 



