PRUNUS ARMENIACA. L. Apricot.
Anneniaea vulgaris, Lam.
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Cisinaru, . . . „ Mandata, nu:la-hams. The apricot tree grows well on the first range of the Himalaya, healing abundance of fruit in the months of May and June. It is propagated • in the same way as the peach. In India the tree has been naturalized, and grows to a large size in s.
...:srdens of the Dekhan and Mysore. It blossoms at the same season as the peach, from January to March. Dr. Stewart had seen the apricot wild in many places from 4000 to 6000 feet in the Panjab Himalaya. It is commonly cultivated all over, up to perhaps 15,000 feet, in some places in the dry climates of the Upper Sutlej and the Upper Chenab, and even to 11,500 or 12,000 feet in parts of Tibet. A great deal of the fruit, especi
ally at the higher elevations, is very inferior, and in Tibet it is generally small. But very fair fruit is grown in many parts, and, in some_of the Kana war villages especially, the trees constitute a chief forts] of the wealth of the inhabitants, and yellow heaps of it maybe seen drying in thousands on the roof of almost every house. A consider able quantity (100 maunds) of dried apricots are annually imported via, Peshawur into the Paujab from Afghanistan, where the tree is largely grown. A gum similar to gum-arabic exudes from wounds in the bark of the tree. The wood is used occa sionally for making the Tibetan drinking cups. J. D. Cunningham; Drs. Roxb., Riddell, Stewart, Royle, Birdwood, Moorcroft; Darwin, Variation of Animals.