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