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THE APPLE. 
circle , as Maiden’s Blush. When they are bounded by a circle 
elevated but symmetrical, they are called oval , as Summer Pippin ; 
when not symmetrical perpendicularly but broadest at their lowei 
portion in the form of an egg, they are said to be ovate . 
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; oblique when the opposite sides maintain their 
relative 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 and 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 ; 
when these ridges have intervening hollows, they are said to be 
ribbed . 
