MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 3 



minute examination the leaves will be found to differ. It ri- 

 pens in August. 



10. The Black Apricot. This has been very lately intro- 

 duced, by Sir Joseph Banks, from France, in which country 

 it is highly esteemed. 



The trees that Sir Joseph planted at his seat in Spring 

 Grove, near Hounslow, bore fruit last season, for the first time 

 in this country ; but, in consequence of the wet and unfavour- 

 able weather, it did not arrive at perfection^. It ripens about 

 the second week in August. 



To the foregoing viay be added: 



The Great Apricot, The Dutch Apricot, 



Holland ditto, Grover's Breda, 



Provence ditto, Persian, 

 Alberge, Royal Orange, 



Angumoise, Transparent, 

 Blotched-leaved, Portugal Apricot, (a small 



Nancy Apricot, (a fine fruit), 

 large fruit). 



For the accommodation of those who have small gardens, 

 and yet wish to have a regular succession of fruit, v\^e shall give 

 abstracts of the larger selections ; retaining those kinds only 

 which are best adapted for that purpose ; and of which one or_ 

 more trees of a sort may be planted, according to the size of 

 the garden, or the demand of the family. 



A Selection of Apricots for a small Garden, 



The Masculine, the Roman, the Orange, the Breda, and 

 the Moor Park. 



Of the Plantings Pruning^ and Traijiing of Apricots. 



The best time for planting Apricots is in Autumn, as soon 

 as the leaf begins to fall. The person who goes to the nursery 



* I have had the honour of paying Sir Joseph a visit at Spring Grove, 

 where I had the pleasure of tasting one of these Apricots ; and I think it will 

 prove an acquisition well worth cultivating. The black colour of the fruit 

 may, perhaps, prejudice some persons against it ; but the flavour, in my opinion, 

 is very good; and if it be considered, that the wood of 1799 was not well 

 ripened, owing to the wet season, there is little doubt, that, next year, if the 

 season should be favourable, the flavour of the fruit will be greatly impi-oved, 

 and continue improving till the tree comes to maturity. The scantiness of the 

 present crop of Apricots, Peaches, Nectarines, Sec. may be attributed to the 

 wood not being properly ripened last year. 



In Mayer's " Pomona Franconia," will be found a very good figure of 

 the Black Apricot, called also the Alexandrian Apricot. 



