APPLE SERVICE. 
with from three to seven or eight fruits on 
each. The fruit appears Hke a Httle yellowish 
green Apple, tinged with red on the side which 
; is exposed to the sun. It is sprinkled all over 
'the rhind with small rising brown spots; 
;and has a hollow crown, like the Apple: but 
the stalks run a little into angles, and so do 
! the branches of the tree. While the fruit is 
i unripe, it is very rough to the taste; but, as it 
; grows riper, it becomes soft like a Medlar, 
and turns of the same colour; and then, too, 
it is very agreeable to the palate. These," 
says Edwards, " were in perfedlion at the 
latter end of September; and had five seeds, 
like those of Apples, except that the flesh in- 
clines a little to a yellowish colour.'* 
This does not agree with the generical cha- 
ra6ler of the seed, as given by our great bo- 
tanists ; and, though Miller, sensible of this 
defe6l, says it must be referred to the Common 
Service only, it appears that even the Com- 
"mon Service has generally four seeds. 
The Pear Service had been figured by 
Mrs. Blackweli ; but the Apple Service was 
unknown 
