114 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
as an ornamental shrub in gardens, as the lowering Almond. There 
are two marked varieties of the Almo: the one with sweet bland 
seeds, Sweet Almond ; and the Bitter Almond, the kernel of which con- 
tains a bitter volatile Bie impregnated with prussic acid. This oil, which 
is 0 used for flavoring pastry, &c., exists, or one very newly like it, 
eal at eh Ruleeigs J udging from observation, it mone ie m to 
wn to our Pastry Cooks, that a peach p aot. ith the 
fruit safle { (. e. simply pared, but the nut An 4 the “pei is ‘vastly 
superior to one made of the mere fleshy porti n pieces. 
process of tithe as I suppose, elicits the pesentiad ‘ll deen the a ae 
the peach and diffuses it through the pulp, imparting to it a ee 
and delicious flavor, far beyond what it possesses when the stone 
previously rejected. 
2. ARMENIA’CA, T panei Apricor. 
{s * a 
Armenia, it: 
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Calyx campanulate, with 5 reflexed segments. Reis prandieeg ens 
ay: clothed with a soft ved pubescence ; nut comp 
even and not roughly furrow | = margin gph the other pps 
both grooved. anes rees. Leaves subcordate or ovate, conyolute in the 
bud. Flowers white, subsessile, so ee or few, preceding the leaves 
1. A. vuLea’RIs, cs Leaves orbicular-ovate, acuminate, dentate, sub- 
- at base ; flowers sessile. 
w Anmeniaca, Common Apricot. Moor-park Apricot. 
ea LAbricotier. Germ. Der Aprikosenbaum. Span. Albaricoque. 
__ Stem 10~15 or 20 feet high, with rather stout spreading branches. Leaves 2-3 inches 
long ; petioles an inch to an inch and a half long, mostly with ¢ a like glands near the base — 
of the — Petals white. Drupe oval, are when mai 
Cultivated. Native of Armenia. FLA Pr. July 
tree yields a aas and favorite fruit ; and, in propitious 
fe This 
seasons, the branches are 80 so loaded as to remind one of the admonitory 
passage in S. 
Go, bind thou bt tage dangling Apricocks, 
like upru upruly oof the make hele eh 
Give some supportance to the eater twigs. si 
ing iI 
The name of this ime was written “Apri 
fruit in Suaxsp 
pg by a corruption of the iti do ps ss meaning Early ae meniaca. 
t is melancholy to reflect how thoughtless and negligen 
vat oe 
few who do not own or oce cient ground to admit of 3 
or 4 choice fruit-trees a ; such, for rege as an Apricot, 
Peach, a May-duke Cherry, a Catharine 
ie gros: Sajority seem never to think o 
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Ce Maa Oa Ei a EL AT Sy eS ae ellie pin tape ern ana aA EINER IS Cae Set A OSES 
ais, 
