DESCRIBING POME FRUITS 47 



as in the matter of the cavity. The basin is 

 first shallow, medium deep, or deep (Fig. 13) ; 

 next narrow, medium broad, or broad / then 

 abriipt, rounded, sloping, or flaring ; and lastly 

 it is smooth, regular, irregular, wavy, plaited, 

 or even crowned. This last term of descrip- 

 tion is applicable when the five ribs along 

 the sides of the apple come to five separate 

 knobs about the basin, forming a little crown. 

 The crowned basin is not specially rare. It 

 is more common among apples grown on the 

 Pacific coast in North America, but is most 

 of all characteristic of the apples grown in 

 the maritime countries of Europe. The 

 common Yellow Bellflower furnishes the best 

 example of it for the average American fruit 

 grower. 



The basin is very rarely marked with 

 russet, or with some color other than the one 

 covering the rest of the fruit. Of course, all 

 such peculiarities of coloring or marking will 

 be carefully mentioned in the description. 



The basin, with the calyx, constitutes the 

 eye. Many pomologists, however, have been 

 in the habit of using the term " eye " in all cir- 

 cumstances, substituting it entirely for the 

 term " basin." Thus in many descriptions one 



