The long Mascoline Apricocke hath his fruit growing a little longer then the former, and differeth in nothing else.
The Argier Apricocke is a smaller fruit then any of the other, and yellow, but as sweete and delicate as any of them, hauing a blackish stone within it, little bigger then a Lacure Cherry stone: this with many other sorts Iohn Tradescante brought with him returning from the Argier voyage, whither hee went voluntary with the Fleete, that went against the Pyrates in the yeare 1620.
The Vse of Apricockes.
Apricockes are eaten oftentimes in the same manner that other dainty Plummes are, betweene meales of themselues, or among other fruit at banquets.
They are also preserued and candid, as it pleaseth Gentlewomen to bestowe their time and charge, or the Comfitmaker to sort among other candid fruits.
Some likewise dry them, like vnto Peares, Apples, Damsons, and other Plummes.
Matthiolus doth wonderfully commend the oyle drawne from the kernels of the stones, to annoint the inflamed hæmorrhoides or piles, the swellings of vlcers, the roughnesse of the tongue and throate, and likewise the paines of the eares.