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apple stock. The reason of this is, no doubt, that on the 

 quince and paradise the juices of the tree are better pre- 

 pared, richer, and better suited to the growth of the fruit, 

 In the common pear and apple stocks the sap is taken up 

 in greater quantities, is watery, and better adapted to form 

 wood than fruit. 



CLASSIFICATION OF SIZE. 



The terms qualifying the sizes of fruits are always given 

 comparatively, m regard to the two extremes., the largest 

 and the smallest of the species ; for instance in apples, 

 we may consider the Gloria Mimtfi and Twenty Ounce 

 as extremely large, and the Lady apple as extremely small. 

 The terms used, therefore, are such as to represent the 

 various grades between the two extremes. These are 

 Very large, as the Gloria Mundi Apple, Duchesse cPAn- 

 gouleme Pear, CrawforcPs Early Peach, Yellow Egg 

 Plum, and Napoleon Bigarreau Cherry. 

 Large, <vs the Baldwin Apple, Bartlett Pear, Red Check 

 Melocoton Peach, Washington Plum, and Black Eagle 

 Cherry. f 



M'^.ium, as the Rambo Apple, White Doyqjne Pear, 

 Imperial Gage Plum, and the American Amber 

 Cherry. 



f-Small, as the Early Strawberry Apple, Dearborn's Seed- 

 ling Pear, Green Gage Plum, and Baumari>s May 

 Cherry. 



Very Small, as the Amire Johannet Pear, Lady Apple, 

 Winter Damson Plum, and the Indidle (Early May) 

 Cherry. 



The distance between some of these grades, as be- 

 tween medium and large, &c., is so short that they are 

 frequently confounded ; still they give a notion of com- 

 parative size that answers all practical purposes. It 



