380 ANNUAL REPORT. 



230. Titouka. — Titus. — I do not k-iow of this having been fruited. An ap- 

 ple known as Titovka is grown along the Volga, and throughout Middle Russia. 

 We saw it every where and in quantity. Mr. Budd described it as the market- 

 woman and car- boy apple, of those regions. In Western Russia, however, there 

 is auother apple that is known as Titovka. EUwanger & Barry received their 

 Titovka from. Moscow, which they describe as a large handsome fruit resembling 

 Twenty Ounce, and which they say is the largest and showiest of the New Rus- 

 sian, which they have tested thus far. A specimen sent by them to Ames, Iowa, 

 was tested by Mr. Budd and myself. It is strikingly like ZolotorefF; a sample 

 of which, I had brought from Mr. Tuttle's, but it seemed different in flesh. A 

 sample lately sent by Mr. Goegginger, of Riga, Russia, to Mr. Willim Evans of 

 Montreal, would seem to be this same apple, the same I believe as that describ- 

 ed and pictured by Dr. Regel, in his Pomology. 



Dr. Regel says that this apple originated at the little hamlet of Titov, between Tula and 

 Kaluga, and received very favorable notices in the Journals of some of the Moscow Socie- 

 ties. He says that it is grown from St. Petersburg southwards. Dr. Regel speaks of it as 

 green when on the tree, afterwards as becoming a yellow green or lemon color, with some 

 red in the sun, and in the South, a blood red. 



Dr. Ed. Jankowsky, Director of the Pomological Gardens, at Warsaw, in his 

 " Sad i ogrod owocowy," says, that in Poland it is known, as the Toulski or ap- 

 ple from Tula. He described it as a large beautifully yellow, and nicely blushed 

 or painted dark red, with larger or small s'ripes, tender, and verv good. Mr. 

 Budd thinks that the Titovka received from Veronesh is not the same in leaf as 

 that of the Department. 



2-36. Antonouka; — Anthony;— The Antonovka is the king apple of the Rus- 

 sian steppes, and I hope that this apple, in the Department list, is true to its 

 name. Those received by Mr. Budd from Moscow, St. Petersburgh, Riga and 

 Veronesh, and perhaps elsewhere, all seem true to name, but he has no scions of 

 it from the Department. Mr. Tuttle showed me good, healthy trees, in an 

 orchard adjoining his own. They were not in bearing, but the fruit borne last 

 year answered my description exactly. The Antonovka, of EUwanger and Bany, 

 is true to name, but it was received from Moscow. 



240. Teschanka; — Lieby; — Mr. Oliver Gibbs, Jr., of Lake City, Minnesota, 

 speaks of this as growing in Carver county and closely resembling 378 Hibernal 

 both in tree and in fruit. The tree is spreading and irregular in growth 

 such as nursery men do not lik?; fruit large rather flat in shape, taper- 

 ing toward calyx; color red and streaked. Of these Lieby is a little the riper; 

 they are good sub-acid cooking apples. 



Mr. Sias says that this is identical with 374, Pendant Ear. Hardy, free from 

 blight, of Duchess type and a good annual bearer. It was exhibited at the 

 winter meeting of the Minnesota Horticultural Society, at Minneapolis, by 

 Andrew Peterson, Carver County, Minnesota, but past its season. 



245. Borouinka. — Mushroom. — Mr. Budd says like Duchess, but a month 

 later. 



Dr, Regel speaks of the Borovhika as one of the most important of the Russian ap- 

 ples, and says it is grown largely as far as the provinces of the south of Moscow. I* 

 has been grown even at the convent of Valaam, an island in Lake Ladoga. Tne tree 

 is large and spreading, and stands the coldest winters of the St. Petersburg climate, 

 bearing fruit every year and bearing very heavily alternate years. This tree is named 

 after the family of Borovinyh In the government of Tula. The fruit is large, lemon 

 colored, with marbllngs, splashes and stripes of bright red. When uncolored, 0"wing 



