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and cutting weather, as was advifed for the 

 peach trees. 



The fruit commonly ripens, fome the latter 

 end of Auguft, but the principal crop in Sep-. 

 tember, and fome late kinds the beginning of 

 Oaober. 



APRICOT, 



APRICOTS are choice ftone fruit, which, 

 being nearly of the quality and tempera- 

 ture of peaches and nectarines, are produced 

 principally upon wall-trees in this country ; 

 for as the trees blolTom early in Spring, and 

 the fruit in its embrio and fmall young ftate 

 is tender, and liable to be cut off by froft, 

 which often prevail in its early growth, in 

 March and April, they require the proteftion 

 of warm walls, both to preferve more certain 

 and effei^ually a tokrable crop of fruit, and. 

 to afCiil in ripening it with a good flavour,*-^ 

 Coniifts of the following varieties ; 



Early Mafculine A- 



piicot 

 Royal Orange Apricot 

 .Roman Apricot 

 Old Orange Apricot 



Turky Apricot 

 Breda Apricot 

 Brufiels Apricot 

 LordD unmore's Breda 

 Tranfparent Apricot. 



Thefe different varieties of apricots are 

 trained principafly for wall-trees, and fome 

 forts alio occafionaliy in efpaliers and half- 

 flandards, particularly the Breda and Bruffels 

 apricot; but always the general fupply of all 

 Y 2 the 



