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cultivation, loaded with fine fruit, and this, evidently, not one of 

 Iheir first crops, and yet the trees not more than six feet high. We 

 find little trees planted two, three, and even four together in a clump 

 like stalks of corn, three or four to a hill, and these clumps ten feet 

 apart each way. This is strictly true of some orchaixls, not so of 

 others ; for upon richer and moister soil, the trees grew somewhat 

 larger, and, as we went southward, at each town we staj'ed at, we 

 found the Anis larger, until, at iSaratof, we saw Anis thirt3'-five 

 ^•ears planted which had attained a diameter of trunk of ten inches. 

 In nurserj' it is a slow and crooked grower such as nurserymen hate 

 to grow and hate to sell after the}' have grown them. In orchard a 

 slow grower. Trees in different places, pointed out as thirty 3'ears 

 planted, seemed very small. In old orchards at Khvalinsk and else- 

 where, it was considered the most long-lived tree. We saw there, 

 trees seventy years at the ver}- least. These were fourteen inches 

 in diameter of trunk, branched low as the Anis usually is, and, 

 though some large limbs had been removed some 3"ears ago, yet the 

 trees were sound in trunk and top." 



* * * * it ^^YQ were alwavs struck by the beaut}', even when 

 some distanice oflT, of one variety of the Anis. This is the Anis Alui 

 or Pink Anis, and, I suppose, the same as the Anis Rosovoi or Rose 

 Anis spoken of at Simbirsk and other places on the Volga. It is an 

 oblate apple of full medium size, or about the size of the Fameuse, 

 the color of our Decarie, mostl}' a deep pink with a light blue bloom. 

 In these dry climates we may expect high color. When we were on 

 the Volga it was too early to taste it in good condition, and besides 

 this, it is often picked too earh', perhaps, to reach distant markets 

 by a certain time. Whether it will color and ripen on its way to 

 market, like a Duchess, or whether, like our St. Lawrence, it will 

 almost cease to mature after it is picked from the tree, I cannot say. 

 The grain is fine, the flesh white and firm. It is really a dessert 

 apple of fine qualit}-. It often sells at two roubles per pood, that is 

 one dollar per thirty-six pounds, when poorer fruit is selling at 

 thirt}' cents, and under Russian care it keeps till late winter or, 

 spring." 



" Aiiisovka. — Under this name Mr. Shroeder tells us of a medium 

 sized, flat, yellowish green apple, with bright red side, grown a good 

 deal about Moscow, and said to be a very good dessert fruit that 

 keeps a long time, in fact all winter. Farther south it would not 

 keep so long." »**«** 



