148 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



1832. 8. Kenrick Am. Orch. 255. 1832. 9. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 327. 1849. 10. Elliott Fr, 

 Book 424. 1854. II. Noisette Man. Comp. Jard. 2:498. i860. 12. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 896, 

 952. 1869. 13. Mas Pom. Gen. 2:133. 1873. 14. Le Bon Jard. 338. 1882. 15. Hogg Fruit 

 Man. 684. 1884. 16. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 421, 431, 454. 1889. 



Apricocke i. Apricock Plum 2. Abricot de France S- Abricot Blanc 16. Abricot Blanche 5. 

 Abricot ordinaire 5. Abricote $. Abricote blanc 7, 12. Abricotfe 4, 13. AbricotSe 6, 7, 10, 12, i5. 

 Abricotie Perdrigon 6. Abricot^e Blanche 7, 12, 15, 16. Apricot Plum of Tours 7. Abricote de 

 Tours 7. Abricotiede Tours 7, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16. Apricot Plum 8. Apricot Plum of Tours 10, 12, 16. 

 Abricot&e Blanc 12. Aprikosenartige Pflaume 13. Apricot 13. Aprikosenartige Pflaume 16. Apricot 

 Plum 16. Aprikosen Perdrigon i6. Die Abrikosenartige Pflaume 6. Die Morillenpflaume 6. 

 French Apricot 9. Fruhe GeJbe Kaiser Pflaume 16. Gelbe Apricosenartige Pflaume 13. Gelbe 

 Dauphins 16. Gelbe Reine-Claude 16. Gelbe Aprikosenpflaume 16. Lieflander Gelbe Pflaume 16. 

 Morillen Pflaume 16. Old Apricot 12, 13, 15, 16. Prune-Abricot 11. Prune Abricot^ 14. Prune 

 Abricotfe Blanche 11. Prune Abricotee de Tours 8. Prune Abricote 8. Prune d' Abricot Ordinaire 5. 

 Prune d' Abricot Blanch 5. Prune d'Abricot bigarree 5. Prune d'Abricot de France 5. Prune d' 

 Abricot 16. Red Apricot 10 incor. Reine-Claudenartige Aprikosen Pflaume 16. Susina Massina 

 Piccola 16. The New Apricot Plum 16. Virginale j. White Apricot Plum 7, 12. Wahre Aprikosen 

 Pflaume 16. White apricot 12, 16. Weisse Aprikosen Pflaume 16. Yellow Apricot 10, 12,13, 15, 16. 



Since John Parkinson described the " Apricocke " plum in 1629, 

 several types of this variety have appeared in literattire and these have 

 become so badly confused that it is impossible to separate them. However, 

 as the variety is nearly extinct, and will probably never be revived, this 

 confusion is happily of historic rather than of economic interest. Nearly 

 all writers recognize at least two types, one of which is superior to the other. 

 The better of these can readily be identified as the " Abricotee " of Du- 

 hamel, and should be considered the true Apricot. Little is known of 

 the early history of this variety other than that it was very generally dis- 

 tributed throughout Europe early in the Seventeenth Century. The 

 American Pomological Society rejected Apricot in 1858, though it is 

 doubtful if they had the true type. This variety is not to be confused 

 with the Prunus simonii, commonly called " Apricot," or the native plum 

 of that name. 



The following description is compiled: tree large, vigorous, productive; fruit 

 mid-season; large, roundish or slightly elongated, with prominent suture, yellow, 

 blushed with red, overspread with thin bloom; flesh yellow, sweet, pleasant, slightly 

 musky; good; stone small, free. 



ARCH DUKE 



Prunus domestica 



I. Hogg Frwit Man. 684. 1884. 2. Ont. Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 35. 1891. 3. U. S. D. A. Pom. 

 Rpt. 45- 1895. 4. W.N. Y.Hort.Soc. Rpt. 42:83. 1897. 5. Cornell Sta. Bui. 131:182. 1897. 6. 

 Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:241, 242. 1899. 7- /Wd. 187:77, 78. 1901. 8. Waugh PJwm Cittt. 95. 1901. 

 9. Thompson Card. Ass't 4:156. 1901. 10. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:242, 243 fig., 254, asS- ^9°S- 



Late Diamond 1. 



