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3. They emit a pleasant odor when biiskly rubbed. 



4. The skin does not feel unctuous. 



5. They are handsomely and regularly ribbed around 

 the eye, and often also over.tbe fruit. 



6. They have a tender, loose, spongy, and mostly fine 

 grained flesh. 



7. They have a fine rose, fennel, or anise flavor. 



8. They are mostly of short duration, and are often 

 only summer or autumn apples. 



9. They are mostly striped like a turnip. 



ORDER I.— FRUrr TAPERING OR OBLONG. 

 ORDER n.— FRUIT ROUND OR FIAT. 



CLASS m.— RAMBOUES. 



1. They are all large apples, and comprise the largest 

 sorts. 



2. They have mostly, or almost always, two unequal 

 halves — namely, one side lower than the other. 



3. They are constantly furnished with ribs around the 

 eye which are broad, rising irregularly, one above the oth- 

 er, and extending over the iruit so as to render it irregu- 

 lar in its shape ;. they are also compressed, and have one 

 side higher than the other. 



4. They are constantly broader than high, and only 

 sometimes elongated. 



5. They have all a loose, coarse grained and often very 

 pleasant flesh. 



ORDER L— WITH WIDE CELLS. 

 ORDER n.— WITH NARROW CELLS. 



CLASS IV.— REINETTES. 



1. They have a fine grained, delicate, crisp, firm flesh. 



2. They are mostly the ideal of a handsomely shaped 

 apple; in them the convexity- or bulge of the middle of 

 the apple towards the eye is the same as that towards 

 the stalk, or not much different. 



3. They are all gray dotted, or have russety patches, or 

 completely covered with nisset. 



4. They have rarely an unctuous skin. 



