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well covered at the firft appearance of tlie 

 bloffoms. 



The tranfparent is larger than the former, 

 and of a pale yellow, or whitifh colour, 

 and is ripe in the beginning of Auguft. 

 The tree is not vigorous, which renders it 

 the fitted for an efpalier or dwarf; but if 

 it is not planted in a proper foil, the ex- 

 tremities of the young branches are apt td 

 die in winter. 



The Bruffels is a middte-fized fruit, pretty 

 full of bright red fpots on the fide next 

 the fun, and ripens in the beginning of 

 Auguft; the branches of a year old are 

 of a bright brown colour. 



The orange apricot is the moft commFOily 

 and the beft bearer ; it is a large fruit of 

 a roundifli make, the fide next the fiin is 

 markt with red, and it ripens moft com- 

 monly in Auguft. 



The Turkey is the largeft, tho' fome- 

 what flat in its make, without being much 

 inarkt with red, and ripens fomewhat later 

 than the laft, and not fo good a bearer. 



There is a finall apricot which ripens 

 with the Turkey 5 it is of a round ifti ihapt, 



and 



