4 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



time in this country ; but, in confequence of the wet and un- 

 favourable weather, it did not arrive at perfection *. It ripens 

 about the fecond week in Auguft. 



To the foregoing may be added : 



The Great Apricot. The Dutch Apricot. 



Holland Apricot. Grover's Breda. 



Provence Apricot. Perfian. 



Alberge. Royal Orange. 



Angumoife. Tranfparent. 



Blotched-leaved. Portugal Apricot, (a fmall 



Nancy Apricot, (a fine fruit.) 

 large fruit.) 



For the accommodation of thofe who have fmall gardens, 

 and yet wilh to have a regular fucceffion of fruit, we lhall 

 give abftracts of the larger felections ; retaining thofe kinds 

 only which are belt adapted for that purpofe ; and of which 

 one or more trees of a fort may be planted, according to the 

 fize of the garden, or the demand of the family. 



* Since writing the above, I have had the honour of paying Sir Jofeph a vint at Spring 

 Grove, where I had the pleafure of tarring one of thefe Apricots- ; and I think it will 

 prove an acquisition well worth cultivating. The black colour of the fruit may v per- 

 haps, prejudice fome perfons againft 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 

 feafon, there is little doubt, that, next year, if the feafon fhould be favourable, the flavour 

 of the fruit will be greatly improved, and continue improving till the tree comes to 

 maturity. The fcantinefs of the prefent crop of Apricots,* Peaches, Ne&arines, &c. may 

 be. attributed to the wood not being properly ripened I'aft year. 



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

 Apricot, called alfo the Alexandrian Apricot, 



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