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temporary coverings of canvass, elevated on, and 

 fastened to posts round the tree, would not be lost 

 labour, but productive of much gratification to the 

 owner. 



When two or more of this sort of apricot are 

 planted together, they should not be placed nearer 

 than thirty feet apart. Instances are on record, of a 

 single tree covering a space of nearly one thousand 

 square feet : such is that at Arundel Castle, in 

 Sussex. The stocks for this sort being the same as 

 the Hemskirk, need not be repeated. 



6. Moorpark Apricot, — Is ripe from the middle 

 of August till the first week in September. This 

 fruit has in its time received many different names 

 — Anson's, Temple's, Dunsmore, &c. Both the 

 Lords Anson and Dunsmore having resided at 

 Moorpark, three of its names are easily accounted 

 for. That it could not have been introduced by- 

 Sir W. Temple (though he also had lived at Moor- 

 park), appears evident from its omission by Miller 

 in his folio edition of 1748 ; nor is it mentioned by 

 Grey, of the Fulham Nursery, who published his 

 catalogue ten years afterwards. And he (Grey), 

 having at that time one of the finest collections of 

 fruit trees in the kingdom, on intimate terms with 

 Miller, and patronized by Mark Catesby, Esq., was 

 not likely to overlook, or remain ignorant of such a 

 fine fruit as the Moorpark apricot, had it been then 

 in the trade. Another account says, that the ori- 

 ginal tree was brought from -the Netherlands about 

 the middle of the last century, by Sir Thomas Moore, 



