1. Apricot Iconography Jules Janick Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907-2010 janick@purdue.edu

2. 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

3. Armeniaca minor, Matthioli’s Commentaries on Dioscorides, 1544

4. Fruit Seller Vincenzo Campi (Cremona 1580)

5. Jan Baptiste Saive, Fruit Market, 1590

6. John Gerarde, 1597

7. Georg Flegel, Apricot Branch, ca. 1630

8. ‘Nancy’ peach-apricot hybrid Pierre J.F. Turpin, 1768

9. ‘Noir’ apricot Pierre J.F. Turpin, 1768

10. ‘Moor Park’ apricot, Wilhelm Hooker, 1815

11. ‘White’ apricot Wilhelm Hooker, 1818

12. ‘Fairchild’s Early’ apricot Wilhelm Hooker, 1818

13. ‘Breda’ apricot Wilhelm Hooker, 1819

14. ‘Musch Musch’ apricot Augusta Withers, 1825

15. ‘Précocé’ apricot, Pierre-Antonine Poiteau, 1838- 1846

16. ‘Imola Royal’, Marilena Pistola, 1975

17. 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