46 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



while the cavity is being described. It is 

 long or short, slender or stout. In rather rare 

 cases it is clubbed by the presence of a swell- 

 ing or protuberence on the side. Such stem 

 forms are rare, but are strikingly characteris- 

 tic of certain varieties. Once in a great while 



Shallow, smooth Medium, wavy 



Deep, folded 

 FIG. 13 DIFFERENT BASIN FORMATIONS 



other unusual forms are discovered, but when 

 they are the pomologist must depend on his 

 own ingenuity to fit them with happy descrip- 

 tive terms. 



The basin is the depression at the apical 

 end of the fruit, or at the end opposite the 

 stem the " blossom end," it is sometimes 

 called. This is only less characteristic and 

 important than the cavity, and requires criti- 

 cal study and painstaking description. The 

 description follows very much the same lines 



