saw the following in the latest issue of "Fruit Gardener" magazine;
July/August 1998, 30(4); from p. 6; "Ask the Experts" column
by Eunice Messner.

White-fleshed apricots, lesser-known counterparts to white peaches and
nectarines, are actually very old apricot forms extant in older growing
regions like Central Asia and the Middle East where white apricots are
more adapted climatically than our more familiar European strains. White-
fleshed apricots, in contrast to the varieties commonly grown in
California, tend to be smaller in size, have softer, juicier flesh
[hence harder to ship and shorter shelf-life] with higher sugar content.
They often have sweet kernels tasting like almonds. The trees of
white-fleshed varieties often require more winter chill than yellow-
fleshed tpes and are less precocious (i.e., begin bearing fruit later),
but the trees may be longer lived than those of European sorts. Many
white varieties are also self-sterile and require cross-pollination.

Above info by Andy Mariani;
material in brackets [*] is comment by Tom Billings

"Fruit Gardener" magazine is published by California Rare Fruit
Growers (CRFG), Fullerton, CA. URL:  http://www.crfg.org/

P.S. 1) a few specialty nurseries might carry white-fleshed apricots;
check around - the article mentions L.E. Cooke Nursery but does not
give an address,
2) white apricots, with kernels that taste like almonds, sound interesting!
If anyone on the list has experience with them, please post and let us know.

Tom Billings