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these Russian apples is to plant their seeds and raise a new stock. 

 There may be some improvement in quality in this process, and 

 the seedlings so produced are liable to be hardy stocks to use in 

 propagating the best of the Russian varieties. 



OTHER NEW APPLES. 



Now I will give you a short description of some other apples 

 which have not heretofore been brought to public notice. First 

 the German Rambo and the Rembackei' 



In 1854 I made a visit to the old country and brought home with 

 me cions of two hundred varieties of apples. I root grafted them 

 that winter and in the spring of 1855 planted them out in nursery 

 rows. They grew well through the summer, but in the spring 

 after, half of them were dead. The second spring they were all 

 dead except the German Rambo and the Rembacker. They were 

 sound and good for transplanting, and so they stand with me to- 

 day. The German Rambo ripens after the Duchess of Oldenburg, 

 but keeps longer. Its form is like the Duchess and it is just as 

 large. The color is a straw yellow, with bright carmine on the 

 sunny side. The stem is short, and at its base in some of them is 

 a protuberance like that of the apple called the Roman Stem ; flesh 

 white; Havor spicy. The tree is spreading in form, not a good 

 grower for the nurseryman, and bears some fruit from the terminal 

 buds, leaf large, strong-ribbed, woolly underneath and hardy. 



The Rembacker, a brother of the German Rambo, has gone 

 through all the winters since 1855 uninjured. The tree is 

 slender in form like the Willow Twig, and a slow grower; bark 

 yellow. Bears in alternate years. The apple is of medium size, 

 green with red stripe on sunny side. Flesh white like Fameuse; 

 flavor vinous; keeps till spring. 



The Robinson is a seedling apple, raised by James Robinson of 

 the town of Dahlgren, in this county. The tree is twenty-five 

 years old, and a slender grower; young wood, brown; buds large; 

 leaf large and coarse; fruit large, oblate; stem short; hangs fast on 

 the tree; color light red with dark red stripe, and white spots over 

 the surface; flavor vinous, growing sweeter in the spring; tree is 

 hardy. 



The Gibb apple is a hybrid. I got this from our friend, the veteran 

 pomologist, G. P. Peffer, of Pewaukee, Wis., several years ago. 

 The tree is a slow grower but very good bearer. Cions are woolly 

 towards bud at the tips; buds and leaf large; fruit medium to 



