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or wide / it is regular, or wavy, wrinkled, plaited, folded, 

 ribbed or angular, fig. 46 when these peculiarities exist. 



Fig. 44. DEEP AND ABRUPT. Fig. 45. SHALLOW. 



Some fruits are russeted at this part of their surface only, 

 but this marking is a variable character and is found in 



greater or less degree in dif- 

 ferent localities ; thus the Rhode 

 Island Greening, to which it be- 

 Fig. 46. NARROW AND FOLDED longs, is sometimes almost en- 

 tirely divested of the russeting, and in other localities 

 the surface is thickly spread with it half way to the stem ; 

 the Westfield Seek-no-further, which is slightly marked 

 with this character in the North, often becomes a russet 

 apple in more southern latitudes. 



The basin of some fruits is very apt to crack into irreg- 

 ular fissures, and this appears to be peculiar to certain va- 

 rieties, though it is not esteemed a very reliable mark ; 

 the term cracked is used to express this. In some fruits, 

 however, we find a very peculiar cracking that forms a 

 permanent character, upon which great dependence may 

 be placed : all the rim of the basin in these is marked 

 with a slightly cracked appearance that does not rupture 

 the skin, and which resembles the incipient breaking of 

 the surface of a piece of dry leather; it has, therefore, re- 

 ceived the name of leather-crack. This is characteristic 

 of a few sorts, and hence a valuable mark". 



Within the basin is the EYE, which furnishes characters 

 of great yalue. This I consider to mean the meeting of 



