Blooming season early and of medium length; flowers appearing before the leaves, white; borne in clusters on lateral buds and spurs, in threes or fours; pedicels medium in length and thickness, glabrous; calyx-tube obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes narrow, obtuse, glandular-ciliate, glabrous, erect; petals oval, entire, short-clawed; anthers yellowish; filaments of medium length; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens, often defective. Fruit mid-season; one and one-half inches long, one and three-quarters inches wide, roundish-oblate, compressed, halves equal; cavity medium in depth and width, flaring, with concentric russet rings; suture shallow; apex depressed and at one side; color dull dark red, with waxy bloom; dots numerous, large, russet, conspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem five-eighths inch long, glabrous; skin tough, bitterish, separating from the pulp; flesh dark red, juicy, firm but tender, sweet, with pleasant mild flavor, aromatic; good; stone clinging, three-quarters inch by five-eighths inch in size, oval or obovate, turgid, pointed, roughish, winged on the ventral, deeply furrowed on the dorsal suture. APRICOT _Prunus domestica_ =1.= Parkinson _Par. Ter._ 578. 1629. =2.= Rea _Flora_ 209. 1676. =3.= Quintinye _Com. Gard._ 67, 69. 1699. =4.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr._ =2=:93, Pl. XIII. 1768. =5.= Knoop _Fructologie_ =2=:52, 53, 54. 1771. =6.= Kraft _Pom. Aust._ =2=:28, Tab. 173 fig. 1; =2=:34, Tab. 183 fig. 1. 1796. =7.= Prince _Pom. Man._ 71. 1832. =8.= Kenrick Am. _Orch._ 255. 1832. =9.= Thomas _Am. Fruit Cult._ 327. 1849. =10.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 424. 1854. =11.= Noisette _Man. Comp. Jard._ =2=:498. 1860. =12.= _Downing Fr. Trees Am._ 896, 952. 1869. =13.= _Mas Pom. Gen._ =2=:133. 1873. =14.= _Le Bon Jard._ 338. 1882. =15.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 684, 1884. =16.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 421, 431, 454. 1889.