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