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Thb te/in«; ubcv^,, tht^refore, are sucli as to represent the 

 V \rious grades betvVeen the two extremes. These are 



Very large^ as the Gloria Mundi Apple, Duchesse 

 d^Angoultme Pear, Cratcford'^s Early Peach, Yellow Egg 

 Phim, and Napoleon Bigarreau Cherry. 



Large, as the Baldtcin Apple, Bartlett Pear, Bed Cheek 

 Melocoton Peach, Washifigtoii Plum, and Black Eagle 

 Cherry. 



Jfediuni, as the Bamho App.'e, VThite Doyenne Pear, 

 Imperial Gage Plum, and the Atnerican Amber Cherry. 



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

 ling Vq^t, Green Gage Flnm, and Bawjia/i's May Cherry. 



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

 Winter Damson Plum, and the J?ididle {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 difierent 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 design 

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

 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. 



