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THE APRICOT. 
considered the finest variety ; and it is with us the largest and 
most excellent sort cultivated — being often as large as a Peach, 
of medium size, handsome, and of delicious flavour. It very 
strongly resembles the Moorpark, but the two are readily dis- 
tinguished by the eye when standing near each other, and the 
fruit of the Peach is rather larger and finer, and a few days ear- 
lier. 
Fruit of the largest size, about two and a half inches in dia- 
meter, roundish, rather flattened, and somewhat compressed on 
its sides, with a well marked suture. Skin yellow in the shade, 
but deep orange, mottled with dark brown, on the sunny side. 
Flesh of a fine yellow saffron colour, juicy, rich, and high fla- 
voured. Stone with the same pervious passage as the Moor- 
park, and with a bitter kernel. 
Poman. Tliomp. Lind. 
Abricot Comraun. 0. Dull. GTermine. 
Grosse Germine. Transparent. 
This is with us one of the largest growing and hardiest Apri- 
cot trees, and produces good crops every year in cold or unfa- 
vourable situations, where none of the other sorts, except the 
Masculine, succeed. It is, therefore, though inferiour in flavour, 
a valuable sort for northern situations. The blossoms will bear 
quite a severe frost without injury. 
Fruit middle sized, oblong, with the sides slightly compressed, 
with but little or no suture. Skin entirely pale yellow ; or very 
rarely dotted with a few red spots on one side. Flesh dull yel- 
low, soft, rather dry. When ripened by keeping a few days in 
the house, the flavour is tolerably good. Stone oblong, with a 
bitter kernel. Ripe the last of July and first of August. 
There is a Blotched leaved Roman, ( commun a feuilles 
panaches, of the French,) precisely like the foregoing in all re- 
spects, except the white or yellow stain in the leaf — but it is 
quite distinct from the blotched leaved Turkey, cultivated here. 
Royal. Thomp. Nois. P. Mag. 
A fine large French variety, raised a few years since at the 
Royal Luxembourg gardens. It is nearly as large as the Moor- 
park, but with larger leaves borne on long footstalks, and with- 
out the pervious stone of that sort. It is quite as high fla- 
voured, and ripens a week or ten days earlier. 
Fruit roundish, large, oval, slightly compressed. Skin dull 
yellow, with an orange cheek, very faintly tinged with red, and 
a shallow suture. Flesh pale orange, firm and juicy, with a rich 
vinous flavour. Ripe the latter end of July. 
