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country and became known everywhere as the Duchess of Olden- 

 burg. This apijlc we did not see in Russia At Tenki, in the 

 Government of Kazan, in a peasant orchard, we saw trees in full 

 bearing of a fruit which both Mr. Budd and 1 looking carefully at it 

 thought to be Duchess ; but on tasting it we found it so fine in grain 

 and so mildly acid, that we felt that no such ditferencc in texture 

 and flavor could result from change of soil and climate." * * * 



"Grand Mother (Baboushkino) is described by Mr. Shroedcr as 

 a beautiful bright red medium sized oblate apple of fine quality. 

 At Voronesh, Mr. Fischer sa\s it is a good and productive tree, 

 and an excellent large sized apple that keeps till March. Mr. 

 Regel describes it as an apple of first quality that keeps till May. 

 What we saw under this name were above medium size, fiat rather, 

 with a large thi<;k stalk : flesh white, firm, breaking, juicy, fine 

 grained, unripe, but showing every sign of fine qualit}', and of being 

 a long keeper. Its appearance is against it, yet these hardj- long 

 keepers deserve thorough trial." 



"Red Korosiiavka {KoroshavJca Alni) is one of those strik- 

 ingl}- beautiful apples one cannot forget. It has the color of our 

 Victoria, a bright deep pink, and any part not so colored is as ncarl}- 

 as possible pure white. It is usualh' of medium size, often above, 

 regular in outline, and never ribbed liked Pink Anis. Like Victoria, 

 its flesh is a pure white, and on 29th August, firm, crude acid, not 

 ripe enough to fairl}' judge. This tree, like the Anis, when grown 

 in the North is dwarf in habit, and where broken down b}' weight 

 of snow, sound at the heart, and evidently a 3'oung and abundant 

 bearer. At Tenki it was said to keep till January." 



'■'■ Skmisapfel. — Dr. Regel speaks of this as an excellent table 

 apple that keeps until the following Sunnner, and says that the tree 

 endures the coldest Winters at St. Petersburg, and has been grown 

 at Moscow, Tula, &c. Mr. Shroedcr says it is a medium or small- 

 sized apple, striped (but perhaps this onl}' on one side, I am not 

 sure,) a very hai'dy tree, an apple of really good quality ; good for 

 dessert and cooking, that keeps sometimes till August. The tree 

 has branches like a Scott's Winter, which cannot easily be torn out. 

 The fruit, as we saw it, green, with a little dull red, beginning to 

 appear on one side, and very heavy. Flesh greenish, juicy, rather 

 tender, crude, and but very mildly acid, when ripe lacking acid one 



