EXPLANATION OF TERMS. 



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Fig. 87— Obtuse. Fig» 88. Fig. 89. 



or pointed apex, fig. 90 ; it is usually wide in fruits having 

 a wide or obtuse apex, as Rambo, fig. 91 ; but where the 

 rim or boundary is broad and obtuse, the basin may be 

 narrow, as in the St. Lawrence and Gravenstein, fig. 92. 



It is distinct when well defined. 



Abrupt, when the depression breaks off suddenly from the 

 rim, fig. 93. 



Fig. 90 Fig. 91. Fig. 92. Fig. 93. 



Emn^ when not furrowed or wrinkled. 



Angular, with several corners. 



Wrinkled, having small irregular hollows and ridges. 



Waved, with gentle and irregular undulations of surface 



Furrowed, when more regularly channelled. 



Plaited, having small, straight, and regular ridges. 



Ribbed, with larger and more obtuse or rounded ridges. 



The peculiar forms of pears render some additional terms 

 necessary : 



Many pears have a neck, or narrower part towards the 

 stalk, and a body, or larger part towards the crown, fig. 94. 



They are distinctly pyriform, when the sides formed by 

 the body and neck, are more or less concave or hollowed in, 

 as in fig. 94, shown by the dotted lines. 



Turbhiaie, or top-shaped, when the body is nearly round, 

 and a short rounded acute neck, as in the Bloodgood, fig^. 95 



