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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 
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- 
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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. 
Summer Hagloe. 
B. Ends unequal. 
Devonshire Quarenden. 
Red Astracan. 
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. 
Buffington’s Early. 
July Branch. 
Cole’s Quince. 
May Apple, Vir. 
B. Ends unequal. 
Drap d’Or. 
Early Julien. 
George Apple. 
