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opening buds; scattered on lateral spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels three-quarters 

 inch long, above medium in thickness, finely pubescent, greenish; calyx-tube green, 

 campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes obtuse, lightly pubescent, glandular-serrate, re- 

 flexed; petals obovate, crenate, with broad claws of medium length; anthers yellow 

 with a reddish tinge; filaments seven-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous except on 

 the ovary, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit late, season short; one and five-eighths inches by one and three-eighths 

 inches in size, roundish-oval, compressed slightly, halves equal; cavity narrow, abrupt; 

 suture shallow, often lacking; apex roundish or depressed; color bluish-black, with 

 thick bloom; dots numerous, small, yellowish-brown, inconspicuous; stem three- 

 quarters inch long, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin tender, somewhat astrin- 

 gent; flesh deep yellow, juicy, tender, sweet, of pleasant, mild flavor; good; stone semi- 

 free, one inch by five-eighths inch in size, flattened, irregular-oval, tapering to a long, 

 narrow neck at the base, bluntly acute at the apex, with rough and pitted surfaces; 

 ventral suture prominent, heavily furrowed, distinctly ridged; dorsal suture acute, 

 often with a narrow, indistinct, shallow groove. 



RED APRICOT 



Prunus domestica 



i. Knoop Fructologie 2:52, 54. 1771. 2. Kraft Pom. Aust. 2:27, Tab. 172 fig. i. 1796. 3. 

 Prince Pom. Man. 2:72. 1832. 4. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 1.1846. 5. Goodrich N. Fr. Cult. 83. 

 1849. 6. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:127, fig. 64. 1873. 7. Hogg Fruit Man. 720. 1884. 8. Mathieu Nom. 

 Pom. 447. 1889. 9. Lucas Vollst. Hand. Obst. 474. 1894. 



Abricot Rouge i. Abricote Rouge 3. Apricot Plum 5. Abricotee Rouge 6. Abricot Rouge 

 6, 7, 8. Abricotee Rouge 7, 8. Die Aprikosenpflaume 2. Furstenzeller Pftaume 8. Furstenzeller 

 Reine-Claude 8. Prune d' 'Abricot Rouge i, 8. Prune d'Abricos 2. Prune d'Abricot rouge i . Prune 

 Abricotee Rouge 4. Red Apricot Plum 3. Rothe Aprikosenpflaume 6. Red Apricot 6, 8. Rote 

 Aprikosenpflaume 8. Rote Aprikosenzwetsche 9. 



This plum, well known in Europe, is probably not now grown in Amer- 

 ica and it may not deserve recognition here except for its historical interest. 

 Red Apricot is probably an inferior off-shoot of the Apricot plum although 

 no definite record of its lineage is obtainable. It does not seem to have 

 been known until nearly one hundred and fifty years after the Apricot 

 was brought to notice. Kraft figured and described a long prune-like 

 red plum under this name but because of its shape his plum was undoubt- 

 edly spurious. The variety was rejected by the American Pomological 

 Society in 1856. It is described as follows: 



Tree vigorous, shoots glabrous; fruit mid-season, large, roundish; color red over 

 yellow; suture shallow; cavity small;' stem an inch long, stout; flesh yellow, dryish, 

 inferior in flavor; poor; freestone. 



