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APRICOT. 



Northumberland, under the name of the Ahricot 

 Peche, the peach apricot, from Paris. But this 

 turns out to be neither more nor less than the Moor- 

 park; though some have pretended to have observed 

 a difference ; but which, the author must confess, 

 he never could see. 



7. Brussels Aprncot, — Is ripe from the middle to 

 the end of August, sometimes continuing to the end 

 of the first week in September. This fruit has been 

 in our gardens for the last one hundred and fifty 

 years, and when thoroughly ripened, in favourable 

 seasons, on a standard in the open ground, is really 

 a very superior fruit. The fruit are of the middle 

 size, rather compressed : general colour a dull yellow, 

 w^ith a tinge of red next the sun, and speckled with 

 brown and white. It makes a healthy tree ; and 

 when planted against an east or west wall bears pro- 

 fusely. 



For standards, in the open ground, it has been 

 famed of old ; and, certainly, is one of the best for 

 that purpose, if budded on the Brussels stock. For 

 dwarfs, the muscle stock is preferable ; and the 

 requisite distance between tree and tree, should not 

 be less than twenty feet on a wail. 



8. Turkey Apricot, — Ripens between the middle 

 and the end of August; and that so gradually, that 

 the fruit are seen at table longer than any other sort. 

 The fruit are large and nearly round, and of a deep- 

 yellow colour ; in hot seasons, brownish next the 

 sun. The pulp is close, the juice rich and abundant. 

 The tree is generally healthy, the young wood 



