Chapter XXI: Section 2: Sour

SUB-SECTION 1.--Pale or blushed, more or less, but self-colored and not striped.

SUB-SECTION 2.--Striped or Splashed.

SUB-SECTION 3.--Russeted.

CLASS II.--CONICAL, tapering decidedly toward the eye, and becoming OVATE when larger in the middle and tapering to each end, the axial diameter being the shorter.

ORDERS I and II.

SECTIONS 1 and 2.

SUB-SECTIONS 1, 2, and 3.

CLASS III.--ROUND, GLOBULAR or nearly so, having the axial and transverse diameters about equal, the former often shorter by less than one-quarter of the latter. The ends are often so flattened as to look truncated, when the fruit appears to be cylindrical or globular-oblate.

ORDERS, SECTIONS, and SUB-SECTIONS, as above.

CLASS IV.--OBLONG, in which the axis is longer than the transverse diameter, or appears so. These may also be truncate or cylindrical.

ORDERS, SECTIONS, and SUB-SECTIONS, as above.

FOOTNOTES:

[47] As translated for R. Hogg's British Pomology.

[48] Figures 36 to 46, pp. 355 to 356.

DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES.

ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR CLASSIFICATION ALPHABETICALLY, UNDER EACH DIVISION.

CLASS I.--FLAT APPLES.

+ORDER I.--REGULAR IN FORM.+