CLASS I. FLAT APPLES. L II. II. 



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specimens are slightly angular ; the surface is very smooth, 

 a greenish waxen yellow, more or less shaded with mixed 

 light red, upon which are laid numerous stripes and broken 

 splashes of rich, dark carmine ; Dots minute, scattered, 

 gray. 



Basin abrupt, regular, or folded ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity deep, regular, sometimes brown ; Stem medium 

 or short. 



Core medium or wide, regular, closed, meeting the eye ; 

 Seeds numerous, plump, sometimes imperfect ; Flesh white, 



Fig. IOC. POWERS. 



very tender, juicy ; Flavor mild sub-acid, quite aromatic, 

 very agreeable ; Use especially for the table, as a highly 

 ornamental dessert fruit, for which its extreme delicacy 

 adapts it, while the same quality unfits it for general mar- 

 ket purposes ; Quality very good ; in its season of ripen- 

 ing, in its beautifully white and tender flesh, and in its 

 perfumed flavor, this fruit resembles the Fameuse, from 

 which it may have been produced. 



