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its fruit is called pistachio almond. It's about the size & shape of a pistachio, & 

 consequently even smaller than the Sultana almond. The pit ends in a point; its material is 

 extremely soft. The almond is firm & tastes good. The tree differs from other almond 

 trees only in the small size of its fruit & leaves. 



V. Sweet ALMOND, larger fruit 

 ALMOND TREE with large fruit and a sweet almond, (PL 11) 



This almond tree, which should be the most common one in our gardens, seems to 

 be somewhat more vigorous than the others. Its shoots are stout & strong, green on the 

 shaded side and reddish on the side toward the sun. 



The flowers are beautiful & very large, eighteen lignes in diameter. The petals are 

 about eight-&-one-half lignes long, six lignes wide, with a deep cleft at the tip and lightly 

 ruffled along the edges, some folded or rolled up on the underside. They are completely 

 white, though their tips are tinged a very bright carmine-red before they open. Many of 

 the flowers have six petals & their calyx has six sections. 



The leaves are two to two-&-one-half inches long by eight or nine lignes wide. 

 They are very finely toothed, pointed at both ends, very sharply so at the end opposite the 

 petiole. Some leaves on small fruiting branches are very long in proportion to their width, 

 not more than five or six lignes wide by two inches nine lignes long. The end near the 

 petiole is only slightly less wide. The other end terminates in a uniform point. The petiole 

 is thin & six or seven lignes long. 



The fruit is large; some are more than two inches 



