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APRICOTS. 



ALEXANDRIAN. Pe. cat, 



Abricotier dAIemndrie. N. Duh. Lond. Hort. cat. 



This variety is of medium size, of a greenish yellow colour 

 on the shaded side, and a bright red next the sun ; the flesh is 

 yellowish white,veined with red, and very sweet. It is particularly 

 esteemed in the south of France, where the heat of the climate 

 imparts to it an excellent taste, but is not much cultivated at 

 Paris, because it blossoms too early, and would consequently 

 be very much exposed to the frosts from which the first part of 

 the spring is there seldom exempt. I have cultivated this va- 

 riety for a number of years, and found it to succeed well here 

 and in other localities near New-York. 



PORTUGAL. Pr. cat. 



Abricotde Portugal. Duh. Roz. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Abricot male. 



This does not form so large a tree as the common varieties, 

 the fruit is also one of the smallest of its class, being seldom 

 more than fourteen lines in diameter ; its skin is a light yel- 

 low, marked only on the side next the sun with some spots, 

 part of which are red and the others of a brownish hue ; the 

 flesh is also but partially coloured, delicate, melting, high fla- 

 voured, and slightly adhering to the stone, which is almost 

 smooth, and contains a bitter kernel. This fruit is at maturity 

 about the middle of August. 



ROYAL. Pr. cat. Pom. mag. 



Abricot Royal. Bon Jard. Nois. man. Lond. Hort. cat. 



This excellent variety, recently introduced to our country, 

 is thus described in the Pomological Magazine. 



The authors of the Bon Jardinier, in which work this 

 first appeared in 1826 ^pronounce the present variety to be even 



