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DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Striped Oilliflowci*. 



Fruit quite large, oblong, conical, truncated, ribbed ; 

 Surface smooth, yellowish white, mixed red, splashed car- 

 mine; Dots rare, gray. 



Basin abrupt, folded ; Eye large, closed. 



Cavity wide, wavy, brown ; Stem short, curved. 



Core large, round, very open, meeting the eye ; Seeds 



Fig. 293. STRIPED GILLIFLOWER. 



small, plump, black; Flesh yellowish white, breaking; 

 Flavor sub-acid ; Quality scarcely good ; U^e, market 

 only ; Season, September. 



Less ribbed than the Scalloped Gilliflower. 



