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Apricot IconographyApricot IconographyJules JanickJules Janick
Department of Horticulture & Department of Horticulture & Landscape ArchitectureLandscape Architecture
Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityWest Lafayette IN 47907-2010West Lafayette IN 47907-2010
janick@purdue.edujanick@purdue.edu
Strange plants and seeds brought back
from Syria by Thothmes II, as they were carved on the
walls of the temple of Karnak, Egypt, 1450
BCE
Armeniaca minor, Matthioli’s
Commentaries on Dioscorides, 1544
Fruit Seller Vincenzo Campi (Cremona 1580)
Jan Baptiste Saive, Fruit Market, 1590
John Gerarde, 1597
Georg Flegel, Apricot Branch, ca. 1630
‘Nancy’ peach-apricot
hybridPierre J.F.
Turpin, 1768
‘Noir’ apricotPierre J.F. Turpin,
1768
‘Moor Park’ apricot, Wilhelm Hooker, 1815
‘White’ apricot Wilhelm Hooker,
1818
‘Fairchild’s Early’ apricotWilhelm Hooker, 1818
‘Breda’ apricot Wilhelm
Hooker, 1819
‘Musch Musch’ apricotAugusta
Withers, 1825
‘Précocé’ apricot,
Pierre-Antonine Poiteau, 1838-
1846
‘Imola Royal’, Marilena Pistola, 1975
Go bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,
Which, like unruly children, make their sire
Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight.
William Shakespeare
Richard II
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