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The terms used, therefore, are such as to represent the 

 various grades between the two extremes. These are 



Very large, as the G-loria Mundi Apple, Duchesse 

 (TAngouleme Pear, Crawford's Early Peach, Yellow Egg 

 Plum, and Napoleon Bigarreau Cherry. 



Large, as the Baldwin Apple, Bartlett Pear, Red Cheek 

 Melocoton Peach, "Washington Plum, and Black Eagle 

 Cherry. 



Medium, as the Hambo Apple, White Doyenne Pear, 

 Imperial Gage Plum, and the American Amber Cherry. 



Small, as the Early Strawberry Apple, Dearborn's Seed- 

 ling Pear, Green Gage Plum, and Baumarfs May Cherry. 



Very Small, as the Amire Johannet Pear, Lady Apple, 

 Winter Damson Plum, and the Indulle (Early May) 

 Cherry. 



The distance between some of these grades, as between 

 medium and large, etc., is so short, that they are frequent- 

 ly confounded ; still, they give a notion of comparative 

 size that answers all practical purposes. It would, per- 

 haps, have been more accurate, and, at the same time, 

 more satisfactory to persons entirely unacquainted with 

 fruits, to have given the comparative measurement of 

 these different grades in inches and parts ; but the varie- 

 ties quoted as examples are common, and very generally 

 known. 



2d. Form. It is exceedingly difficult, even impossible, 

 to find any single term that will give a mathematically 

 accurate notion of the forms of fruits ; for, although we 

 call an apple round or conical, it may not be, strictly 

 speaking, either ; very likely it partakes, to some extent, 

 of both forms. But that is no reason why we should desig- 

 nate it conical round : we simply call it round, or round- 

 ish, if nearer round than any other form ; and if it in- 

 clines slightly to the conical, we cannot in any other way 

 so well convey the knowledge of that fact as by simply 

 saying so. 



