1. BLOTCHED-LEAVED ROMAN. Blotched-leaved Turkey. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 27. Abricot Maculé, of the French. The Blotched-leaved Roman Apricot differs in no respect from the Roman Apricot, No. 11., except in its blotched leaves; more than one half of the plants budded annually in the nurseries becoming plain the first year of their growth from the bud. When the leaves retain their blotched character, the wood which produces them is always, more or less, striped and mottled with yellow, green, and brown. DUHAMEL, Vol. i. p. 145., particularly mentions this variety of Abricot commun, indicating clearly that |