4 CLASSIFICATION OF FRUIT. 



The other character, proportion, is as unchangeable in varieties as in species. These 

 proportions relate to the height and breadth, and the comparative width of the ends. When 

 the breadth and height are nearly equal, the fruit appears elongated, as in the Gilliflower 

 and Yellow Bellefleur. On the contrary, when the fruit is round, and especially when 

 shortened, the width very much exceeds the length, but the ends may be equal or unequal. 

 The proportions must be determined by measurement. The eye will, it is true, detect the 

 characters of the extremes, but will be deceived in many instances as it regards height and 

 breadth. 



By the employment, then, of these characters which I have briefly considered, I propose 

 to arrange the apples into classes and orders ; taking, however, the season of ripening as 

 the basis of the first general division. According to this scheme, this fruit will be arranged 

 in the following manner : 



I. SUMMER APPLES. 



Class I. Fruit red and striped or mottled, or splashed with red. 



Order I. Height and breadth equal or subequal. 



Order II. Breadth greater than the height. 



A. Ends equal or subequal. 



B. Ends unequal. 



A. Ends equal or subequal. 



B Ends unequal. 



Tetopsky. 



American Summer Pear- 

 main. 



American Summer Pear- 

 main. 

 Sops of Wine. 

 William's Favorite. 

 Red Calville. 

 Longville's Kernel. 



Borovitsky. 



Benoni. 



Cole. 



Garden Royal. 



Bevan. 



Irish Peach. 



Early Red Margaret. 



Red Shropshire Vine. 



Striped Shropshire Vine. 



River. 



Foundling. 



Monamet Sweeting. 



Belzer. 



Early Joe. 



Early Chandler. 



June Apple, Virg. 



Rummer Hagloe. 



B. Ends unequal. 

 Devonshire Quarenden. 

 Red Astr.ican. 

 Summer Queen. 

 Summer Rose. 

 Early Pennock. 

 Early Strawberry. 



Class II. 



Yellow, or yellow with an orange or red blush ; green, or green with a brown or 

 reddish brown blush. 



Order I. Height and breadth equal or subequal. 



Order II. Breadth greater than the height. 



A. Ends equal or subequal. 



B. Ends unequal. 



A. Ends equal or subequal. 



B. Ends unequal. 





Sugarloaf Pippin. 

 Spring-grove Codlin. 

 Dr. Helsham's Pippin. 

 Revelston Pippin. 

 Queen Ann Apple. 

 Summer Belleflower. 



Early Harvest. 



Early Bough. 



Oslin. 



High-top Sweeting. 



Spice Sweeting? 



Lyman's Large Summer. 

 Sine-qua-non. 

 Summer Golden Pippin. 

 Tucker. 

 Golden Sweet. 

 White Juneating. 

 White Astracan. 

 Burlington's Early. 

 July Branch. 

 Cole's Quince. 

 May Apple, Vir. 



B. Ends unequal. 

 Drap d'Or. 

 Early Julien. 

 George Apple. 



