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Turkey. Miller’s Diet. ed. 8, no. 5. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat.
no. 26.
Large Turkey, o f some Nurseries.
Abricot de Nancy. Duhatnel, Traité des Arbres Fruitiers,
vol. i. p . 144, tab. 6.
An excellent Apriçot, scarcely known in the
Gardens of this country, b u t in good quality little
inferior to the Moorpark, from, which it is to be
certainly distinguished by its figure being round, not
compressed ; its skin much more transparent, and less
deeply stained with red ; its stone without an open
passage through it ; and especially by its kernel
being sweet like an almond, not bitter.
About London it ripens on a south wall in the
middle of August ; on an east or west wall it would,
of course, arrive at perfection rather later. No
garden in which Apricots are valued should be
without this.
Duhamel says that it is sometimes called the
Abricot Pêche ; but we believe all the trees in this
country known by th a t name are the Moorpark.
W o o d strong, short-jointed, rather warted at
the lower end of the yearling branches; B u d s not
particularly prominent.
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