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Order 3. Gray Reinettes (draiic Rcinctten). 



1. The ground-color ranges from green to dingy or dull yellow. 



2. The russet covering the entire surface is, or the russet patches 

 covering the larger part of the fruit are, very conspicuous. 



3. The sunny side is often a dull, broAvnisli, or ochreous red. 



Order 4. (Iold Reinettes (Gold Rcii)ctte)i). 



1. On the sunny side they are handsomely washed fir striped with 

 carmine. 



2. In keeping, the ground-color changes to a beautiful bright yellow. 



3. The ground-color and the carmine cheek of the sunny side have 

 light, thin patches of russet, or are covered entirely with russet. 



Class Y. — Stripelings (Streiflingc). 



1. All are generallj', and nearly always, distinctly striped with red. 



2. These stripes are over the entire fruit, or appear only very in- 

 distinctly on the sunny side. 



3. These stripes may be alone, that is, purely striped; or, in addi- 

 tion, between these stripes on the sunny side the surface may he either 

 dotted or shaded with red, or covered with uniformly "washed red. 

 In these cases the stripes are distinctly defined on the shaded side. 



4. The core is regular. 



5. The flavor ranges from pure sweet to vinous or acid. 



6. The flavor is never like that of the Rose apples. 



7. They do not shrivel, onh' when picked iireniaturely, or after 

 their season is past. 



8. They constitute a large and somewhat difficult class in com- 

 mercial varieties. 



Order 1. Flat Stripelings. 



1. Widely varying in the curve or bulge toward stem and eye, 

 and broadly depressed. 



2. They are always at least one-half inch broader than high. 



Order 2. Pointed ok taterinc; .Stripelings. 



1. They are also broader than high, taper from the middle of the 

 apple toward the eye, so that the upper half appears conical or p3Tain- 

 idal, and quite unlike the loAver half. 



