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Oblong means that the axial diameter is the longer, or 

 that it appears so, for an oblong apple may have equal di- 

 ameters; fig. 32. 



Oblong-conic, that the outline also tapers rapidly to- 

 ward the eye ; fig. 33. 



Oblong-ovate, that it is fullest in the middle ; and like 



Ovate, which means egg-shaped, that it tapers to both 

 ends ; fig. 34. 



Oblate, or flattened, when the axial diameter is decid- 

 edly the shorter ; fig. 35. 



Obtuse is applied to any of these figures that is not 

 very decided. 



Cylindrical and truncate are dependent upon one an- 

 other, thus a globular, or still more remarkably, an oblong 

 fruit, which is abruptly truncated or flattened at the ends, 

 appears cylindrical in its form. 



Depressed is an unusually flattened oblate form. 



lurbinate or top-shaped, and pyriform or pear-shaped, 

 are especially applicable to pears, and seldom to apples. 



When these forms are described evenly about a vertical 

 axis, as shown by a section of the fruit made transverse- 

 ly, or across the axis, the specimen may be called regular 

 or uniform, fig. 36 ; if otherwise, it is irregular, fig. 37, 

 unequal, fig. 38, oblique or lop-sided, fig. 39, in which last 

 cases the axis is inclined to one side. If the development 

 at the surface is irregular, as in the Duchesse d' Angouleme 

 and Bartlett pears, the fruit is termed uneven. 



When a transverse section of the fruit, made at right 

 angles to the axis, gives the figure* of a circle, the fruit is 

 regular ; if otherwise, it may be compressed or flattened 

 at the sides, fig. 40 ; angular, quadrangular, fig. 41 ; 



