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PtcJie or de Nancy varieties, which all ripen from the 10th to 
20th July. 
The Pyrenees- Orientales department grows the Bouge-lidtif 
variety. Corsica has a preference for the Gros and Muscatello 
kinds, both of which are strong and fruitful. Algeria is now 
beginning to supply a little of this fruit, and the growers there 
ought to think more seriously about it. 
Bordeaux Ajmcots. — The South-west produces a certain quan- 
tity of this fruit, which is consigned chiefly to the Bordeaux market, 
which draws its supplies mainly from Aiguillon, Tonneins, Port- 
Sainte-Marie, and Nicole. The last village is in the department of 
Lot- et- Garonne, and has Apricot orchards in the middle of other 
plantations on steep slopes with a south aspect. The sale 
amounts to 100,000 francs annually. The common varieties 
predominate here, and especially the one with a bitter kernel. 
The fruit is sent to Bordeaux in large baskets, both round and 
oval, and even in punnets when it has a long journey to make. 
The Bourgogne Apricot. — This variety is almost entirely 
peculiar to the Cote-d'Or department, not far from the P. L. M. 
railway. The varieties Precoce, de Morey, and Boyal are grown 
in Bourgogne for export and for the market, and particularly for 
the marmalade trade. The hillsides of Morey, Gevrey, Cham- 
bolle, Beaune, Couchey, Brochon, Fixin, and Chenove are one 
mass of Apricots, Peaches, and early Cherries. The Apricots 
fetch from 80 to 100 francs per 100 kilos. 
The Almond (Amygdalus). 
The Almond is much cultivated by nurserymen as a stock 
for Peach-grafting ; but in this paper it is only as a fruit-bearing 
tree that I shall consider it. 
If the Almond tree were as robust to resist the evil effects of 
soil, and still more of climate, as its fruit, or rather its nut, 
is to stand knocking about. Almond-growing would be an 
industry to be recommended everywhere ; but as it is not so, the 
Almond is seldom cultivated for commercial purposes outside its 
own particular district, viz. from the Drome to the Aude, in- 
clusive of Provence, except in Corsica and Algeria, where it 
prefers mountainous districts, sheltered from the north winds. 
The Almond tree flowering before the foliage is developed, the 
