CLASSIFICATION. 369 



Round, roundish, or oblate / and 2nd, Oblong, conical, 



oval, or ovate. These again are grouped according to 



their colors: A, pale; B, striped; C,red; and D, russet. 



As a matter of interest* I will give Diel's classification. 



CLASS L RIBBED APPLES. 



1. They are furnished with very prominent, but regular 

 ribs around the eye, extending also over the fruit, but 

 which do not render it irregular. 



2. Having wide, open, and very irregular cells. 



ORDER I. TRUE CALVTLLES. 



1. They taper from about the middle of the fruit to- 

 ward the eye. 



2. They are covered with bloom when on the tree. 



3. They have, or acquire, by keeping, an unctuous skin. 



4. They are not distinctly and purely striped. 



5. They have light, spongy, delicate flesh. 



6. They have* a strawberry or raspberry flavor. 



ORDER n. SCHLOTTER ^EPFEL. 



1. The skin does not feel unctuous. 



2. They are not covered with bloom. 



3. They are either of a flat, conical, cylindrical, or taper- 

 ing form. 



4. They have not a balsamic, but mostly a sweetish or 

 sourish flavor. 



5. They have a granulous, loose, and coarse-grained 

 flesh. 



ORDER HL GUELDERLINGE. 



1. They are not balsamic, like Order I.-, but of an aro- 

 matic flavor. 



2. They have a fine flesh, almost like that of the Rei- 

 nettes. 



3. They are either of a conical or flat shape. 



4. They are most prominently ribbed around the eye. 



CLASS II. ROSEN^EPFEL ROSE APPLES. 



1. They are covered with blue bloom when on the tree. 



2. They have not unproportionally large, but often only 

 regular cells. 



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