128 FliVIT VULTURE. 



APKICOTS. 



The apricot is ii)termediate between the 

 plum and the peach, and may be worked on 

 either stock, but better on the former, to Avhich 

 it is more nearly allied. As a rule, it is earlier 

 than the plum and the peach, and for this rea- 

 son is especially desirable. But it is quite as 

 liable to injury from the cold as the peach, 

 and also, the fruit being smooth-skinned, the 

 crop is usually destroyed by the curculio. 

 Consequently it is a fruit rarely seen, and it 

 is rightly regarded as one of the most unre- 

 liable. By a persistent destruction of the cur- 

 culio this evil can be met. And by selecting 

 a deep, high, and drjr soil, not exposed to 

 warm winter sun, we may hope to escape the 

 winter-killing of the buds, and thus obtain an 

 occasional crop. The Early Golden and Red 

 Masculine ripen early in Jul}' ; the Peach, 

 Breda, Moorpark, and Yellow Alburge, in the 

 middlv! and latter part of Jul}'. A^arieties of 

 Russian Apricots have been recently intro- 

 duced into this country, but it is doubtful if 

 anj' ha^■e yet been found to be of much value 

 except for cold sections. 



