144 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



X. APRICOT TREE, largest fruit, flattened, tan on one side, becoming red on the 

 other. 



Nancy APRICOT. (PL VI.) 



This apricot tree is the same size as, or even surpasses, the common apricot tree. 



The shoots are stout & strong, red on the side toward the sun, green on the other 

 side, and highly speckled with gray spots. The red is deeper than on the shoots of the 

 Holland & Provence apricot trees. 



The buds are thick, short, very wide at the base, triple, and often clustered in 

 groups of five or six fairly close to one another. 



The leaves are large, wide, & more rounded near the stalk than those of the 

 clingstone apricot tree. They terminate almost symmetrically in a long, narrow point. The 

 denticulation on the margins is variable. On some leaves it's sharp & very deep; on others 

 it's blunt & less deep. The leaves are from three inches nine lignes to four inches six 

 lignes long & three inches to three inches nine lignes wide. The stalk, from twenty lignes 

 to two inches long, is large and tinged a beautiful red. The leaves often have two small 

 ears on them when they open up. They're a lighter green than those of the clingstone 

 apricot tree, which they greatly resemble. 



The fruit is much bigger than that of the common apricot tree. It's common to find 

 them growing in the open to two inches eight lignes in height, the same across their large 

 diameter, & twenty to twenty-four lignes across their small diameter. They have a flat 

 shape that rarely is fixed & regular. Some are elliptical along their length. Others are 

 much smaller at the top than at the other end. The latter are oval around their diameter but 

 not from the top to the stalk. The former resemble an oval where the ends are neither at 

 the top 



