American Pomology Part 24

2. The ground color changes by keeping to a beautiful deep yellow.

3. Over the ground color, and the crimson of the exposed side, are spread light thin patches, or a complete coat of russet.

CLa.s.s V.--STREIFLINGE--STRIPED APPLES.

1. They are all, and almost always, marked with broken stripes of red.

2. These stripes are found either over the whole fruit, or only very indistinctly on the side exposed to the sun.

3. The stripes may be distinct--that is to say, truly striped; or between these stripes on the side next the sun the fruit is dotted, shaded, or washed with red; but on the shaded side the stripes are well defined.

4. The cells are regular.

5. They are of a purely sweet, vinous, or acid flavor.

6. They have not the same flavor as the Rose apples.

7. They do not decay, except when gathered before maturity.

+ORDER I.--FLAT STREIFLINGE.+

1. They have the bulge at the same distance from the eye as from the stalk, and are broadly flattened.

2. They are constantly half an inch broader than high.

+ORDER II.--TAPERING STREIFLINGE.+

1. They are broader than high.

2. They diminish from the middle of the apple towards the eye, so that the superior half is conical or pyramidal, and not at all similar to the inferior half.

+ORDER III.--OBLONG OR CYLINDRICAL STREIFLINGE.+

1. The hight and breadth are almost equal.

2. They diminish gradually from the base to the apex.

3. Or from the middle of the fruit they gradually diminish toward the base and apex equally.

+ORDER IV.--ROUND STREIFLINGE.+

1. The convexity of the fruit next the base and the apex is the same.

2. The breadth does not differ from the hight, except only about a quarter of an inch.

3. Laid in the hand, with the eye and stalk sidewise, they have the appearance of a roundish grape.

CLa.s.s VI.--TAPERING APPLES.

1. They have the cells regular.

2. They are not covered with bloom.

3. They are not striped, and are either of a uniform color, or washed with red on the side next the sun.

4. Constantly diminis.h.i.+ng to a point towards the eye.

5. They are sweet or vinous, approaching a pure acid.

6. They do not readily decay.

+ORDER I.--OBLONG, CYLINDRICAL OR CONICAL.+

Characters the same as Order III. of the Streiflinge.

+ORDER II.--TAPERING TO A POINT.+

Characters the same as Order II. of the Streiflinge.

CLa.s.s VII.--FLAT APPLES.

1. They are constantly broader than high.

2. They are never striped.

3. They are either of a uniform color, or, on the side exposed to the sun, more or less washed or shaded with red.

4. They have regular cells.

5. They are not unctuous when handled.

6. They do not readily decay.

7. Flavor purely sweet, or purely sour.

+ORDER I.--PURELY FLAT APPLES.+

1. The difference is obvious to the eye.

2. The breadth is constantly half an inch more than the hight.

+ORDER II.--ROUND-SHAPED FLAT APPLES.+

1. The eye cannot easily detect a distinction between the breadth and hight.