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APRICOTS, 



smaller than ordinary. Fruit middle-sized, roundisli, slightly 

 compressed, very hke a small Moorpark, from which it is only 

 distinguished externally by its size ; flesh very bright deep clear 

 orange, more tender and juicy than the Moorpark, with a par- 

 ticularly rich delicate flavour, resembling that of an excellent 

 Green Gage plum ; stone much smaller than that of the Moor- 

 park, without a pervious passage ; kernel nearly sweet," 



BLACK APRICOT. Pe. cat. 



Black fruited Apricot. 

 Pope's Apricot, 



Ahricotier noir, ^ N D h 



Armeniaca atro-purpurea, ^ • " • 



Abricot violet, ) /• -r^ 



Abricot du Pape, [ " a"lo ueT''^''" 



Ahricotier afeuilles de Prunier, } ^ 



Armeniaca dasycarpa. Pars, synop. 



Prunus dasycarpa. Willd. Sp. Ehrh. Beitr. 



Plum leaved Apricot. 



Small black Apricot. Lond. Hort. cat. 



This tree is the strongest and most rapid in its growth of 

 its class ; it does not however incline to grow so lofty as some 

 others, but spreads its branches widely, and forms a large broad 

 head like the common Cherry plum, and it may be considered 

 a fruit intermediate between the plum and the apricot. Duha- 

 mel states that its native country is not known, but that it is 

 supposed to have originated in the east ; other writers remark 

 that Siberia is its native country. Be this point as it may, it 

 is a tree of most hardy character, and I think far more so than 

 any other of its class. Duhamel mentions that the trunk is 

 almost invariably crooked, but I have not found it particularly 

 so ; the bark is peculiar, and of an ash-gray colour, with nu- 

 merous cracks and crevices ; the leaves are oval, two inches 

 in length, very finely indented, smooth, shining on the under 

 side, and borne on petioles of about an inch long, which have 

 two to four small glands; the flowers are usually white, 

 about an inch in breadth, generally solitary and dispersed one 



