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.