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APRICOTS. 



sembles the preceding ; the skin is a waxen white, slightly 

 tinged with red next the sun, and covered with a thicker down 

 than other varieties ; the flesh is a very pale yellow, and even 

 white on the side which has been shaded, not very high fla- 

 voured, but better and more delicate than that of the preced- 

 ing one ; partially adhering to the stone, which has a bitter 

 kernel. The tree generally produces a great deal of fruit, 

 which is at maturity the middle of July. It is the combined 

 advantages of precocity and abundant product that cause this 

 variety to be generally cultivated. 



PEACH APRICOT. Pr. cat. Foe. Coxe. 



Abricotier P^che. N. Duh. Lend. Hort. cat. 

 Abricot de Nancy. O. Duh. Roz. 

 Ahricot de Piemont, or Piedmont. 

 Abricot de Wurtemberg. 

 Abricot de Nuremberg. 



The Peach Apricot which the New Duhamel states is inap- 

 propriately termed Abricot de Nancy, it further mentions as be- 

 ing the largest and the best of all that were then known at Paris, 

 often measuring more than two inches in diameter ; the skin is 

 a fawn-yellow, somewhat marked with red next the sun ; its 

 flesh is likewise of a peculiar yellow hue, approaching a fawn- 

 colour, of excellent taste, melting, full of very sweet and 

 highly perfumed juice ; the stone is oval, compressed, equally 

 convex on both sides, and is thirteen to fourteen lines in length, 

 and ten to eleven in breadth, and contains a bitter kernel ; the 

 fruit begins ripening in the early part of August, and it con- 

 tinues to mature by degrees during the residue of the month. 



This variety is originally from Piedmont, whence it was first 

 transmitted to Provence and Languedoc ; and although it is not 

 at most forty years since it was carried from Pezenas to Paris, 

 it is there cultivated in preference to the Abricot commun or 

 Roman Apricot in most of the gardens and nurseries around 

 the metropolis, where it will perhaps cause the culture of some 

 other varieties to be discontinued whose fruits are inferior to 



