440 THE APRICOT. 



RED MASCULINE. 



Early Masculine. Apricot Precoce. 



Brown Masculine. Apricot hatif Musquee. 



Abricotier. Abricotier hatif. 



Friihe Muscateher. 



A small early sort, hardy, very productive, of tolerable flavor, but 

 not rich, growth upright, slender. 



Fruit small and nearly round, scarcely an inch and a half in dia- 

 meter, with a well-marked suture on one side. Skin bright yellow, 

 tinged with deep orange and spotted with dark red on the sunny side. 

 Flesh yellow, juicy, with a slightly musky, pleasant flavor. Stone thick, 

 obtuse at the ends. Flowers smaller than in most other sorts. Kernel 

 bitter. Ripe about the 12th of July. 



RINGOLD. 



Originated in Athens, Ga. 



Fruit large, roundish, a little oblong, suture slight. Skin light 

 orange, darker in the sun, where it is beautifully dotted with carmine. 

 Flesh deep yellow, juicy, and excellent. Ripens just after the orange, 

 hardy and productive. 



ROMAN. 



Abricot Commuru Germine. 



Grosse Germine. Transparent. 



This is with us one of the largest growing and hardiest Apricot 

 trees, and produces good crops every year in cold or unfavorable situa- 

 tions, where none of the other sorts except the Masculine succeed. It 

 is therefore, though inferior in flavor, a valuable sort for northern situ- 

 ations. 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 yellow, soft, rather dry. 

 When ripened by keeping a few days in the house, the flavor is tolerably 

 good. Stone oblong, 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 respects, except the white 

 or yellow stain in the leaf but it is quite distinct from the blotched- 

 leaved Turkey, cultivated here. 



ROYAL. 



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

 Luxembourg Gardens. It is nearly as large as the Moorpark, but with 

 larger leaves borne on long footstalks, and without the pervious stone of 

 that sort. It is quite as high flavored, 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 flavor. Ripe the 

 latter end of July. 



