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THE LARGE EARLY APRICOT.
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Abricot de St. Jean. . . . 3
Abricot de St. Jean rouge, in Languedoc.
Abricot gros d’Alexandrie, in Provence.
Die grosse Früh Apricose. Sichler’s Teutsch Ohstg'àrtner,
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The earliest Apricot in England is a sort
called the Masculine, little grown, and scarcely
deserving a place in a Fruit Garden, except for
its precocity. This kind, long known in France
by the names above cited, is destined to supply its
place every where, and to advance the period of
maturity of good Apricots to the middle of July in
this country. In France it ripens on Midsummer-
day, whence its name of A. de St. Jean; but it will
not do so here.
In general appearance it is much like a Roman
Apricot, but its quality is better, and it precedes
it by ten days or a fortnight ; it is also more compressed
and elongated.
Its culture and fertility are not different from
the generality of the same class of fruit.
Leaves large, broad, oval, rather sharply serrated,
tapering more to the petiole than perhaps
any other, and frequently auricled.
F ruit large, somewhat oblong, compressed ;