VARIETIES OF THE APPLE. 
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Order II. Breadth greater than the height. 
B. Ends unequal. 
Borovitsky. Fruit angular, medium size. Stripes faint. 
Benoni. Fruit medium size. Skin deep red. 
Cole. Fruit above the medium size, angular. 
The line a a (fig. 1) is drawn through 
the base, at the junction of the stem with 
the flesh at the bottom of the depression ; 
and b b is a line drawn through the crown, 
at the bottom of the calyx depression. 
When this depression is very shallow, the 
end is narrow, although it may speedily 
widen, and the two extremities may appear 
at first sight subequal : so when the stem 
depression is shallow, this end is often very 
narrow, especially when the depression is 
filled up, or obsolete. These proportions, 
I believe, will be found very important in 
determining the names of fruit; but as they 
have not as yet received much attention, it 
is impossible to make use of them except 
when an outline figure is given : these 
should be drawn with great care from the 
fruit itself. 
Fig. 1. 
In figure 2, the line c c represents the 
height of the apple, and, like the lines 
representing the breadth at the extremities 
already referred to, will be found quite 
constant in its relations in the same varie¬ 
ties, although produced in different sections 
of this country. If this is not true, we 
may despair of describing fruit so as to 
become useful to inquirers. 
Fig. 2. 
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