1. They are all, and almost always, marked with broken stripes of red.--2. These stripes are found either over the whole fruit, or only very indistinctly on the side exposed to the sun.--3. The stripes may be distinct, that is to say, truly striped; or between these stripes on the side next the sun, the fruit is dotted, shaded, or washed with red; but on the shaded side the stripes are well defined.--4. The cells are regular.--5. They are of a purely sweet, vinous, or acid flavor.--6. They have not the same flavor as the Rosenäpfel.--7. They do not decay except when gathered before maturity, or after the period when properly ripened.--8. They form a large and somewhat considerable class among the culinary fruits. ORDER I. FLAT STREIFLINGE. 1. They have the bulge at the same distance from the eye, as from the stalk, and are broadly flattened.--2. They are constantly half an inch broader than high. ORDER II. TAPERING STREIFLINGE. 1. They are broader than high.--2. They diminish from the middle of the apple towards the eye, so that the superior half is conical, or pyramidal, and is not at all similiar to the inferior half. ORDER III. OBLONG OR CYLINDRICAL STREIFLINGE. 1. The height and breath are almost equal.--2. They diminish gradually from the base to the apex.--3. Or from the middle of the fruit, they gradually diminish towards the base and apex equally. ORDER IV. ROUND STREIFLINGE. 1. The convexity of the fruit next the base and the apex is the same.--2. The breadth does not differ from the height, except only about a quarter of an inch.--3. Laid in the hand with the eye and stalk sideways, they have the appearance of a roundish shape. CLASS VI. TAPERING APPLES. 1. They have the cells regular.--2. They are not covered with bloom.--3. They are not striped, and are either of an uniform color, or washed with red on the side next the sun.--4. Constantly diminishing to a point towards the eye.--5. They are sweet, or vinous, approaching a pure acid.--6. They do not decay readily. ORDER I. OBLONG, CYLINDRICAL, OR CONICAL. Characters the same as Order III. of the Streiflinge. ORDER II. TAPERING TO A POINT. Characters the same as Order II. of the Streiflinge. CLASS VII. FLAT APPLES. 1. They are constantly broader than high.--2. They are never striped.--3. They are either of an uniform color, or on the side exposed to the sun more or less washed or shaded with red.--4. They have regular cells.--5. They are not unctuous when handled.--6. They do not decay readily.--7. Flavor purely sweet or purely sour. ORDER I. PURELY FLAT APPLES. 1. The difference is obvious to the eye.--2. The breadth is constantly half an inch more than the height. ORDER II. ROUND-SHAPED FLAT APPLES. 1. The eye cannot easily detect a distinction between the breadth and height.--2. The breadth rarely exceeds the height by a quarter of an inch.--3. The fruit cut transversely, exhibits almost or quite two equal halves.