Apricot Iconography Jules Janick Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Purdue University West Lafayette IN

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 hybrid Pierre J.F. Turpin, 1768

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

‘Moor Park’ apricot, Wilhelm Hooker, 1815

‘White’ apricot Wilhelm Hooker, 1818

‘Fairchild’s Early’ apricot Wilhelm Hooker, 1818

‘Breda’ apricot Wilhelm Hooker, 1819

‘Musch Musch’ apricot Augusta Withers, 1825

‘Précocé’ apricot, Pierre-Antonine Poiteau,

‘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