134 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



about a ligne-&-a-ha\f long, inserts into a narrow & deep cavity. 



The skin is slightly bitter if the fruit has ripened under the leaves or off the tree. 

 The shaded side is a beautiful yellow; the opposite side is quite a strong red. 



The flesh is a not very deep yellow & separates from the pit. 



The juice is quite plentiful. Some find that has a bit it of a musky taste. 



The pit is six lignes long, seven lignes wide, & six lignes thick. Those of the large 

 fruit varieties are an additional ligne in each dimension. It's much more enlarged on the 

 side with the ridge is than on the opposite side, where it's barely two lignes thick. The 

 kernel is bitter. 



This apricot ripens at the beginning of July. 



II. APRICOT TREE small fruit, round, whitish, ripens prematurely. 

 White APRICOT. APRICOT-Peach. 



THIS apricot tree evidently is a variety of the preceding one; it's almost 

 completely identical to it. Its buds are smaller & shorter, almost as wide at the base as 

 they are high. The leaves aren't quite as big & their denticulation is less deep. They're 

 not inwardly concave; rather they're folded along the central vein. 



The shape of its fruit resembles that of the early apricot. It's small, flattened at the 

 end where the stalk inserts, & even a little bit at the other end. It's quite round at its 

 diameter that is fifteen to sixteen lignes, and it's thirteen or fourteen lignes high. The 

 largest ones are eighteen lignes in diameter & fifteen lignes high. 



The skin is covered with a fine down, more distinct than on other apricots but less 

 so than on peaches. The shaded side 



