ROYAL A PR ICO T .
Abricot Royal, Bon Jardinier f o r 1827, p . 288. Noisette
Manuel complet du Jardinier, 2. 490. Hort. Soc. Cat. o f
Fruits, p . 7. No. 50.
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The authors of the Bon Jardinier, in which work
this first appeared in 1826, pronounce the present
variety to be even superior to the Moor-park, their
Abricot Pêche, and with some justice. I t ripens
from a week to ten days before th a t kind, possesses
all its good qualities, and is less subject to be imperfectly
matured on one side. Its flesh when bruised
becomes transparent. I t may be readily distinguished
from the Moor-park, not only by these
characters, but also by the passage in the edge of
its stone being scarcely pervious, by its form being
less compressed, and by_ its not acquiring the size
*of the Moor-park.
Raised a few years since in the Royal Garden
of the Luxembourg, whence a plant was sent to the
Horticultural Society by M. Hervy the Director.
Our drawing was made from specimens produced
in the Chiswick Garden.
W o o d strong, rather longer jointed than in the
Moor-park; when ripe, closely marked with pale
transverse specks, appearing through the openings
m the epidermis.