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accuracy. It may appear as a mere blush on 

 one cheek, or it may be washed all over the 

 side. It may be splashed or striped upon the 

 ground color, and the stripings may be bold 

 and irreuglar, or they may be fine and regu- 

 lar. It is no uncommon occurrence to find 

 two shades of red combined in the coloring 

 of an apple, both being superposed on a 

 ground color of green or yellow. Such a 

 coloring should be specially mentioned. A 

 fruit which is all of one solid color is said to 

 be self-colored. 



The dots are very characteristic on some 

 fruits, particularly on many apples. They 

 vary in number, in size, and in color. In color 

 they may be white, gray, or russet, or seldom 

 of some other color. In form they may be 

 round, irregular, or areolar. Areolar dots are 

 such as usually have a small dot of russet in 

 the center, surrounded by a more or less 

 regular circle of white or gray. In certain 

 cases the dots appear to be sunken, as in the 

 Baldwin apple, and rarely they appear to be 

 slightly raised above the surface. Finally 

 they may be scattered miscellaneously over 

 the surface of the fruit, they may be crowded, 

 or they may be most numerous about the eye. 



