A Faulty Beauty 



This fruit is a Blood Plumcot; the plumcot being, it will 

 be recalled, a cross between the plum and the apricot. This 

 particular variety shows its Chinese parentage in its faulty habit of 

 cracking; which renders it utterly useless for marketing pur- 

 poses, notwithstanding the lusciousness of its flesh. 



