NEW KINDS OF APPLES. 63 



you plant cabbage and cauliflower, or savoy, or 

 anything of a similar nature, it will cause the 

 most perfect sort to degenerate, if theyare al- 

 lowed to bloom together. The same is the case 

 with apples ; for, if various sorts are in the same 

 garden blooming near each other, although you 

 might save your seed from what appeared a very 

 fine apple, you would not judge which was the 

 male parent : in order to elucidate this particu- 

 lar, I will endeavour to state as plainly as pos- 

 sible, the nature of the apple from its first forma- 

 tion, till it becomes perfect, and produces the ripe 

 pip or seed. 



In the first place, when the bloom is quite 

 open, the principal attraction is the leaves of the 

 bloom, five in number ; that which is called the 

 corolla ; below the flower, where the small green 

 apple is formed, which continues to grow larger 

 till it comes to perfection, this is called the flower 

 cup or calyx ; in the centre of the cup you see 

 small yellow things, which are called stiles, and 

 below the stiles are to be seen several other very 

 small things with round heads like pins, which 

 are called stamens, and these produce a fine dust 



