TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING FRUITS. 



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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. 310). 



FIG. 310. Even Leaf. FIG. 311. Waved Leaf. FIG. 312. Wrinkled Leaf. 



Waved as in the Tallman Sweeting and Beurre d'Aumalis 

 pear (Fig. 311). 



Wrinkled, when the waves are shorter and more irregular, 

 as in Green Sweet (Fig. 312). 



Flat, as in the Madeleine and Skinless pears (Fig. 313). 



Folded and recurved, as in the Easter Pear and Bonchre- 

 tien (Fig. 314). 



FIG. 313. 

 Flat Leaf. 



FIG. 314. 

 Folded Leaf. 



FIG. 315- 

 Erect Leaf. 



FIG. 316. 

 Drooping Leaf. 



Large and wide, as in the Red Astrachan and Ruling's 

 Superb. 



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

 pear. 



Erect, as in the Early Strawberry (Fig. 315). 



Drooping, as in Domine (Fig. 316). But these two last are 

 indistinct characters, and only to be resorted to in a very few 

 remarkable instances, as most leaves are erect on new shoots, 

 and become spreading or drooping as they grow older. 



The color of the leaves may sometimes assist in description, 



