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TERMS USED. 



Buds are large on the Swaar and Golden Sweet ; small on 

 the Tallman Sweeting and Rhode Island Greening. 



4. THE LEAVES in a large number of instances, are of use 

 in distinguishing different varieties. $ 



They are even, (not wrinkled,) as in the Bartlett pear and 

 Baldwin apple, fig. 67. 



Fig. 67. Fig. 68 Fig. 69. 



Fig. 70. 



Fig. 71. 



Waved, as in the Tallman Sweeting, and Beurre d'Au- 

 malis pear, fig. 68. 



Wrinkled, when the waves are shorter and more irregu- 

 lar, as in Green Sweet, fig. 69. 



Flat, as in the Madeleine and Skinless pears, fig. 70. 

 Folded and recurved, as in the Easter Beurre and Bon- 

 chretien Fondante, fig. 71. 



Large and wide as in the Red Astrachan and Huling's 

 Superb. 



Narrow, as in Dyer apple, and Van Mons Leon le Clerc 

 pear. 



Erect, as in Early Strawberry, fig. 72. 



Droopi?ig, as in Dominie, fig. 73. But 

 these two last are indistinct characters, 

 and only to be resorted to in a few very 

 -remarkable instances, as most leaves are 

 "erect on new shoots, and become spread- 

 ing or drooping as they grow older. 



The color of the leaves may sometimes 

 assist in description, as light green in the 

 Yellow Bellflower and Rambo ; deep green, 

 as in the Rhode Island Greening ; and blueish green, as in 

 Peck's Pleasant. 



The serratures, or saw-teeth markings on the margins of 

 leaves, are characteristics of importance, in many varieties 

 of the apple, and on the peach they are so well defined as 



