EXPLANATION OF TERMS. 



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The axis is a line connecting the base and apex. 



A longitudinal section is made by cutting an apple from 

 base to apex. 



A transverse section, by cutting it at right angles to the axis. 



The length, is the longitudinal diameter ; the breadth, the 

 transverse diameter. 



A fruit is round when nearly spherical, as Fameuse, 

 Green Sweet. 



JRoundish, when varying slightly from round, or when 

 the length and breadth are nearly equal, as Dyer and Gra- 

 ve nstein. 



79 Oblate. 80 Conical. 81 Ovate. 82 Obconic. 



Oblate, flat, or flattened, when the height is much less than 

 the breadth , as Rambo, Maiden's Blush, fig. 79. 



Conical, when tapering from, the base to the apex, as Bul- 

 lock's Pippin, fig. 80. 



Ovate, or egg-shaped, when the length rather exceeds 

 the breadth, with a rounded taper from base to apex, as in 

 Esopus Spitzenburgh, fig. 81. 



Obconic,* or reversed conical, when the smaller end is at 

 the base or stalk, as in the Tyson pear, fig. 82. 



Obovate, or reversed ovate, is when the smaller end of an 

 egg-shaped fruit is at the base, as the Buffum and Dearborn 

 Seedling pears, fig. 83. 



83 Obovute. 84 Oblong. 85 Round-ovate. 86 Oblate-conical. 



Oblong, when the length exceeds the breadth, and the 



* This term is chiefly applied to pears, and is nearly equivalent to pyramidal, but 

 more precise in its meaning. 



