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8. PEACH APRICOT. Forsyth. Ed. 3. No. 9. 

 Abricot Peche. Pom. Franc, t. ?. f. 10. 

 Abricot Peche. Duhamel. Vol. i. p. 145. 

 Abricot de Nancy. Ib. No. 10. t. 6. 

 Imperial Anson's. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 5. 



Fruit very large, frequently from eight to nine inches 

 in circumference, deeply hollowed at its base, and com- 

 pressed on its sides. Suture well defined, with a thick- 

 ening on one of its sides. Skin pale yellow in the 

 shade ; but of a deep orange, shaded, and mottled with 

 dark brown, on the sunny side. Flesh firm, deep orange, 

 and full of a very high-flavoured juice. Stone with a 

 pervious passage, and a bitter kernel. 



Ripe, end of August and beginning of September. 



The Peach Apricot is supposed by some to be the 

 same as the Moorpark ; and, indeed, it has all its lead- 

 ing characters ; but an extensive cultivation of it for 

 more than twenty years has convinced me to the con- 

 trary. Its wood is similar, but more gross, less firm, 

 and the tree more tender. Mr. Forsyth says it was 

 introduced from Paris, by his Grace the Duke of North- 

 umberland, in 1767* It is the largest and the best of 

 all the apricots. A tree of this sort was planted in the 

 gardens at Holkham forty years ago, where I have seen 

 fruit of an extraordinary size under the management of 

 Mr. Sandys, who has frequently had them of six ounces 

 and a half in weight, and in any season three of them 

 would weigh a pound avoirdupois. 



9. PURPLE. Pom. Franc. 1 . p. 36. t. 5. f. 8. 

 Alexandrian Apricot. Ib. 



Abricot Angoumois. Duhamel, No. 4. t. 3. 

 Abricot Violet, of the Luxembourg Cat. 

 Black Apricot. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 10. 

 Fruit nearly spherical, about five inches in circum- 

 ference^. Suture deep, extending from the base to its 



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