160 APRICOTS^ 



is at maturity about the middle of August ; it is much supe- 

 rior when produced on standards to that produced on espaliers, 

 and in consequence is seldom cultivated in France after the 

 latter mode. In the environs of Tours, where this variety is 

 very extensively disseminated, they propagate it from the stone, 

 which is found to answer instead of propagating by inoculat- 

 ing, &c. Excellent preserves are made in many parts of 

 France with this fruit, and there are also two other esteemed 

 varieties of it, called Albergier de Montgamet, and Albergier 

 de Tours. 



TURKEY. PR. CAT. MIL. FOR. LOISD. HORT. CAT. 



Large Turkey, of some nurseries. 



Abricot de Nancy. O. Duh. vol. i. p. 144. tab. 6. 



It will be perceived by the synonyme last quoted, which I 

 extract from the Pomological Magazine, that the Turkey Apri- 

 cot is therein deemed to be the same as the one I have already 

 described under the title of Peach Apricot. Without doubt- 

 ing that such may be the fact, I copy the details and descrip- 

 tion there given, in order to elicit investigation. 



" An excellent apricot, scarcely known in the gardens of 

 this country, (England) 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 with- 

 out 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 gardens in which apricots are va- 

 lued should be without this. 



" Duhamel says that it is sometimes called the Abricot 

 Peche, but we believe all the trees in this country, (England) 

 known by that name, are the Moorpark. 



" Wood strong, short-jointed, rather warted at the lower 



