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TERMS USED IN DESCRIBING FRUITS. 



as light green in the Yellow Bell-flower and Rambo ; deep 

 green, as in the Rhode Island Greening ; and bluish green, as 

 Peck's Pleasant. Color varies with soil and tillage. 



The serratures, or saw-teeth markings on the margins of leaves, 

 are characteristics of importance, in many varieties of the 

 apple, and on the peach they are so well defined as to form a 

 basis of the classification of varieties. The latter will be 

 found particularly described in the separate chapter on the 

 peach. 



Fig. 517.— Sharply Serrate. FIG. 318 Double Serrate. FiG. 319.— Crenate. 



Leaves of apples are — 



Serrate, or cut with teeth like those of a saw. 



Sharply serrate, when every serrature ends in a sharp point, 

 as in the Fall Pippin (Fig. 317). 



Doubly serrate, when the serratures themselves are again 

 minutely serrated, as in the Vandevere and Drap d'Or (Fig. 318). 



Coarsely serrate, as in the Swaar. 



Crenate, when the teeth are rounded, as in the Esopus Spitz- 

 en burgh (Fig. 319). 



Obtusely crenate, when the teeth are unusually rounded, as 

 in the Bough. 



