ARMENPACA BRIGANTI'ACA. 
BRIGANTIAN APRICOT. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
S. Europe. 
6 feet. 
March. 
Shrub. 
in 1819. 
No. 1043. 
The present genus is named Armeniaca, from 
Armenia, the native country of the Apricot. The 
name Priecocia was formerly given to this fruit, 
from which, by various corruptions. Apricot has 
been derived. 
A flowering shrub is not the less desirable be- 
cause it is allied to a fruit-bearing tree. Our com- 
mon Apricot is, itself, a beautiful object in flower, 
and may be trained as a shmb to afford an effect 
quite different from that usually produced on a flat 
wall. The Brigantian Apricot resembles it, and 
forms a shrab of from six to ten feet high, and is 
well suited for planting in the mixed shrubbery ; 
where its white flowers, the very earliest in spring, 
will be a pleasing intimation of forthcoming en- 
joyments. 
In the Hortus Britannicus it is said to grow 
only in one locality in France, and in another in 
Piedmont, where an oil, called Huille de marmotte, 
has for a long time been expressed from its seeds. 
Our climate is not favourable to the fmiting of 
this shrub; it grows, however, with freedom and 
flowers abundantly. 
