518 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



NOMENCLATURE AND CATALOGUE. 



J. vS. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 



So far as concerns our own state, 30ur cointnittee has ver}- little to 

 add to the report submitted to j^ou at our last annual meeting-. The 

 j^ear 1893 was not a fruitful one for Minnesota orchards;but a verj' few 

 varieties of apples have even a light crop, and a great manj^ others 

 not enough to make comparisons, or none whatever, and on that ac- 

 count we have not found opportunities for work and did not deem 

 it advisable to make anj^ researches in that line. Also, no state fair 

 was held, and that deprived us of one of the most favorable oppor- 

 tunities for making observations and comparisons ; and at such 

 local and county fairs as we were privileged to attend, the exhibits 

 were meager, and not ver}" inuch that was new came to our notice. 

 We had hoped to sift out and establish the correct names of some of 

 the Kussian varieties that were alluded to in our report last j'ear — 

 especiall)^ in the Oldenberg and Hibernal families — but have not 

 been able to do so. 



When at the World's Fair, Prof. J. L. Budd, of Iowa, called our at- 

 tention to a large and fine exhibit of the Recumbent, or Leib}-, from 

 Washington. This is one of the Hibernal family and, as we have 

 seen it before, so near like the Hibernal that we have believed it to 

 be identicallj- the same varietj^. But if the fruit in this collection is 

 correctly named, unless growing on the soil and in the climate of 

 Washington produces a luarked change in their appearance, we 

 shall be compelled to acknowledge that it is a different and, in some 

 respects, a better variety than the Hibernal. In the course of our 

 explorations for the U. S. Division of Pomology in 1892, we came 

 across two varieties in the orchard of Wm. Oxford, of Houston 

 count}^ where the trees had been puixhased as Russians, without 

 other names, that for apparent hardiness, productiveness, quality 

 and appearance of fruit impressed us as having considerable value 

 for planting in southern Minnesota. We sent specimens of the fruit 

 to Prof. Budd and to the Division of Poniolog3' for a name. One 

 variety Mr. Budd pronounced to be of the Anisim family, and prob- 

 ably the 18 m, and the other could not be identified, and for the 

 present will be known as the Oxford Orange. Later in the season 

 we saw the Anisim, or what we should judge to be the satne variet}', 

 at Andrew Peterson's, Waconia, and on the Experimental Farm at 

 St. Anthon}' Park, Minn., under the name of Good Peasant. The}- 

 have since been rechristened Anisim. In the last autumn we saw 

 the same fruit at the World's Fair shown under the name of Zusoflf. 

 This is noted to show some of the difticulties that will be encount- 

 ered in learning the correct names of some of the varieties of Rus- 

 sian apples and having them propagated and sold under that name. 



The description of the frviit in question is: 



Anisim. — Size, medium ; form, llat-conic, often obli([ue; color, a 

 greenish-j'ellow, almost entirely covered with stripes and splashes 

 of deep red under a bluish bloom; stem, medium short ; cavity, me- 

 dium, slightly russetted; calj^x, small, closed; basin, shallow, slightlj' 



