Report upon the Varieties of Apricot, 



II. Kernels sweet. 

 * Flesh parting from the stone, 



13. Breda. 



14. Angoumois. 



15. Musch Musch. 



16. Turkey. 



* * Flesh adhering to the stone, 



17. Orange. 



1. Red Masculine Apricot. 

 Syn. Masculine. Fotsyth, Treatise, p. 2. Switzer, Fruit Gar- 

 dener, p. 100. Hitt, Treatise, p. 295. Langley, 

 Pom, p. 88. Miller, Diet, No. 1. 

 Early Red Masculine, Hort, Soc. Cat, No. 9. 

 Brown Masculine, of some Collections, 

 Abricot Precoce, or "| Noisette, Manuel, p. 489. 

 Abricotin. J Bon Jard, 1828, p. 305. 



Fruhe Muscateller Aprikose. Baumann, Taschenbuch, 

 p. 389. 



Abricot Precoce. ^ Duhamel, Arhres Fruitiers, 1. 



Abricot Hatif Musque. J p. 133. Mayer, Pom. Franco- 

 nica, 1. p. 29, t. 2, f. 1. Sickler, Teutsche Obstg, 

 8. p. 313. Kraft, Pom. Austriaca 1. p. 26, t. 51. 

 Noisette, Jard. Fruit, p. 2, t. 1. 



Musque Hatif. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 7. 



Leaves large, broad, roundish, cordate, acuminate, coarsely serrated, auricled at the 

 base. Fruit small, roundish, hollowed considerably at the base ; it does not vary like 

 many of the other sorts to an oblong shape. Skin dull honey-yellow on the shaded side, 

 and tinged with red next the sun. Flesh pale yellow, juicy > and tender, slightly per- 

 fumed, parting from the stone; the latter is large for the size of the fruit, and roundish. 

 Kernel bitter. 



The earliest Apricots, cultivated in this country, are the Red 



