The apricot is a delicious fruit, coming as it does very early in the season, between cherries and peaches, and from California we get them quite early in the spring. The California apricots hold the Eastern market, because so few are raised here owing to the attacks of the curculio and worms at the collar of the trees. In the East the Russian varieties do best, and the best of these is the Harris Hardy, which is of higher flavor than the California varieties. Others we grow in the East are Early Golden, Acme, Moorpark, and Roman. Gibbs is an early one and Budd a late one. Apricots are raised on peach stocks, on almond stocks, on apricot stocks, and on Myrobolan plum stocks. The best California apricots are New Castle, Russian, Moorpark, Blenheim, and Royal. The apricot is naturally more nearly allied to the plum than to the peach, having the broad leaf and the smooth stone of the plum, but having down on its skin like the peach.