138 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The flesh is yellow, almost red, and juicy. 



The juice is plentiful, wine-like, pleasant & very flavorful, occasionally sharpened 

 by a little acidity. 



The pit doesn't cling to the flesh at all. It's seven-&-a-half lignes long, seven 

 lignes wide, & four-&-a-half lignes thick. Lying flat, it appears almost round. The kernel 

 is sweet & good to eat, with a flavor like fresh hazelnut. The skin likewise has very little 

 bitterness. 



This apricot ripens about mid- July, before the common apricot. 



V. APRICOT TREE small fruit, round, sweet kernel, flavor reminiscent of almond 

 & hazelnut at the same time. 



Holland APRICOT. Hazel-almond. (PL IV.) 



The Holland apricot tree is smaller than the Angoumois apricot tree. It's very 

 fruitful & rarely fails to produce, especially on an espalier & grafted onto the winter- 

 cherry plum tree. When grafted onto the Saint-Julien plum tree, it yields less fruit, but 

 larger ones. 



The shoot is quite big, light red on the side toward the sun, green on the shaded 

 side, and flecked with very small gray spots. 



The buds are elongated, pointed, and triple along the entire length of the shoot. 



Some of the leaves are as long as they are wide, two inches, ten lignes. But most 

 are much longer than they are wide, three inches by two inches, four lignes. Almost all of 

 them are divided unequally by the midrib. Their denticulation is fine and sharp like the 

 teeth of a saw. They are suspended on stalks twelve to eighteen lignes long. Some of 

 these are bright red; the others are green. 



