240 THE APRICOT. 



considered the finest variety ; and it is with us the largest and 

 most excellent sort cultivated being often as large as a Peach, 

 of medium size, handsome, and of delicious flavour. It very 

 strongly resembles the Moorpark, but the two are readily dis- 

 tinguished by the eye when standing near each other, and the 

 fruit of the Peach is rather larger and finer, and a fe^r days ear- 

 lier. 



Fruit of the largest size, about two and a half inches in dia- 

 meter, roundish, rather flattened, and somewhat compressed on 

 its sides, with a well marked suture. Skin yellow in the shade, 

 but deep orange, mottled with dark brown, on the sunny side. 

 Flesh of a fine yellow saffron colour, juicy, rich, and high fla- 

 voured. Stone with the same pervious passage as the Moor- 

 park, and with a bitter kernel. 



ROMAN. Thomp. Lind. 



Abricot Commun. 0. Duh. Germine. 

 Grosse Germine. Transparent. 



This is with us one of the largest growing and hardiest Apri- 

 cot trees, and produces good crops every year in cold- or unfa- 

 vourable situations, where none of the other sorts, except the 

 Masculine, succeed. It is, therefore, though inferiour in flavour, 

 a valuable sort for northern situations. The blossoms will bear 

 quite a severe frost without injury. 



Fruit middle sized, oblong, with the sides slightly compressed, 

 with but little or no suture. Skin entirely pale yellow ; or very 

 rarely dotted with a few red spots on one side. Flesh dull yel- 

 low, soft, rather dry. When ripened by keeping a few days in 

 the house, the flavour is tolerably good. Stone oblaug, with a 

 bitter kernel. Ripe the last of July and first of August. 



There is a BLOTCHED LEAVED ROMAN, (commun a feuilles 

 panaches, of the French,) precisely like the foregoing in all re- 

 spects, except the white or yellow stain in the leaf but it is 

 quite distinct from the blotched leaved Turkey, cultivated Kere. 



ROYAL. Thomp. Nois. P. Mag. 



A fine large French variety, raised a few years since at the 

 Royal Luxembourg gardens. It is nearly as large as the Moor- 

 park, but with larger leaves borne on long footstalks, and with- 

 out the pervious stone of that sort. It is quite as high fla- 

 voured, and ripens a week or ten days earlier. 



Fruit roundish, large, oval, slightly compressed. Skin dull 

 yellow, with an orange cheek, very faintly tinged with red, and 

 a shallow suture. Flesh pale orange, firm and juicy, with a rich 

 vinous flavour. Ripe the latter end of July. 



