0 THE APPLE. 
ewrcle, as Maiden’s Blush. When they are bounded by a circle 
elevated butsymmetrical, they are called oval, as Summer Pippin; 
when not symmetrical perpendicularly but broadest at their lower 
portion in the form ‘of an egg, they are said to be ovate, 
Oylindrio, ; Oblate. 
When with considerable. breadth of base but less than their 
altitude, the sides are bounded: by curved lines tending towards 
each other at the apex, they are called conic, as Esopus Spitzen~ 
burgh. When the altitude is not greater than the breadth or less 
than the breadth, they are called oblate inclining to or approach- 
ing conic. When the curved lines are interrupted suddenly 
much before they reach each other at the apex, the form is called 
truncate conic, as Herefordshire Pearmain, When the altitude 
is.much greater than the breadth, they are said to be elongated: 
conic, as Porter; obligue when the opposite sides maintain their_ 
Yelative positions to each other, but are so inclined from their 
upward direction, that a perpendicular let fall from the centre 
of the eye would not touch the centre of the cavity, see Yellow 
Newtown Pippin, Pryor’s Red, Pennock, etc. ; cylindric when the 
fruit is round: horizontally, flattened at base ahd crown, and with 
sides perpendicularly parallel, as Long John or Long Pearmain} 
oblong when the sides are perpendicularly nearly parallel and the - 
height greater than the breadth, but without the roundness that 
constitutes cylindric—it is the oval form elongated. When a flat 
face or some degree of flatness is impressed upon the sides of 
apples so as to form more or less distinctly ridges or angles run- 
ning perpendicularly to the base, they are said to be angular; 
eee ridges have intervening. hollows, they are said to be 
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