140 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The denticulation & bidenticulation is blunt & not very deep. The deep red stalks are 

 eight to twelve tignes long. 



The fruit is small and flattened. The biggest ones are fifteen tignes high, sixteen 

 tignes wide, & fourteen tignes thick. A deep groove divides one of the sides, & one of the 

 lips that borders it projects much more than the other one does. 



The skin is yellow on the shady side. On the sunny side it's a beautiful bright red 

 that intensifies on an espalier. 



The flesh is a very deep yellow. 



The juice is not very plentiful, but it has an enhanced flavor, wine-like & refined. 



The pit is brown, rough or sandy. It's seven-&-a-half lignes long, six tignes wide, 

 four-&-a-half tignes thick. It contains a sweet kernel. 



The fruit ripens on an espalier in mid- July. 



VII. APRICOT TREE small fruit, rounded, golden yellow on one side, turning red 

 on the other. 



Portugal APRICOT. {PI V.) 



This tree is quite fruitful. It never reaches the size of the common apricot tree. 



The shoots are quite substantial. They are reddish and heavily speckled with 

 extremely small gray spots. 



The buds are small, pointed, and triple. Often four to eight of them are grouped 

 together on the same node. 



The flowers are lightly tinted red. Many have six petals. 



The leaves are small, elongated, very finely & not very deeply denticulated. When 

 they open, they widen out much less than those of other apricot trees, except those on the 

 Angoumois apricot tree. The tip ends in an almost uniform point. They are three inches 

 long 



