. Pleasant Valley Nurseries : 1900 [catalog]. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit New Jersey Catalogs; Trees New Jersey Catalogs. Pleasant Valley Nurseries—Japan and Russian Apricots. 17 Harris Hardy Apricot. The Apricot is a fruit somewhat intermediate between the peach and the plum. The tree is a round-headed, spreading grower, with dark, somewhat peach-like bark and very broad or almost circular leaves The fruit, w hich generally ripens in advance of both the peach and plum, is peach-like in shape and color, with a smoother skin, rich yellow flesh, and large flat stone. The
. Pleasant Valley Nurseries : 1900 [catalog]. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit New Jersey Catalogs; Trees New Jersey Catalogs. Pleasant Valley Nurseries—Japan and Russian Apricots. 17 Harris Hardy Apricot. The Apricot is a fruit somewhat intermediate between the peach and the plum. The tree is a round-headed, spreading grower, with dark, somewhat peach-like bark and very broad or almost circular leaves The fruit, w hich generally ripens in advance of both the peach and plum, is peach-like in shape and color, with a smoother skin, rich yellow flesh, and large flat stone. The flesh is commonly less juicy than that of the peach, and, as a rule, perhaps of higher quality. The ideal soil for the Apricot seems to be the one which is deep and dry, and of a loamy or gravelly character. The rolling, loamy lands which are well adapted to apples seem to be well adapted to the Apricot, if the exposure and loca- tion are right. NEW VARIETIES. EARLY MOORPARK. A choice new vari- ety. The very earliest large Apricot. Tree a very thrifty, healthy grower. Bears a big" crop young, and every year. Fruit sets all through the tree, which is a desirable feat- ure, enabling the fruit to withstand severe winds, and being less liable to cause break- ing of limbs, as Early Moorpark is a heavy cropper. The quality of the fruit is excel- lent, commanding highest prices in market. Ripens about July 15 at its home near Geneva, N. Y. Early Moorpark is very attractive in appearance, being yellow, with brilliant red cheek. Early Moorpark is luscious, somewhat resembles a peach, and matures about three weeks earlier. 30 cts. each, $ per doz. HARRIS HARDY. Extract from The Rural New-Yorker: "The Harris Apricot, a native seedling from central New York, is being largely grown there for commercial purposes, and is a marked success. The fruit is fully as large as the best Apricots grown in California, and so much better in quality as to make and hold a place in the marke
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