The New Student's Reference Work/Apricot

Apricot (ā' pri-cot), a fruit between the peach and the plum, supposed to be a native of China. There are three species. The kind common in Europe and America grows on a spreading tree with round top, luxuriant, beautiful foliage, bark similar to that of the peach, leaves bright green and ovate or round-ovate, flowers of pinkish white. The apricot will grow under much the same general conditions as the peach. It is beginning to be grown commercially in the east, but it is in California it holds leading place. It has been grown there since the early mission-days, and now is one of California's most important commercial fruits. In the east the apricot suffers from the curculio, the insect that works such havoc with peach and plum. In California the enemies feared are scale insects and a slot-hole fungus.

A′pril, the fourth month of the year, containing 30 days.  It is named from a Latin word, meaning “to open,” because the buds open at this period of the year.  Charlemagne, who made a new calendar, called it Grass Month, the name still given it by the Dutch.  On old monuments April is represented by a dancing boy with a rattle.