382 A1S"NUAL REPORT. 



Dr. Kegel describes the Duchowoe from 'saiii pies from the province of Tchernlgov 

 and also from Barou TiesenUausen, a yellowish green or yellow apple, with a good 

 deal of red on one side and ra«her above medium in size. Flesh white, juicy, agreea- 

 ble and vinous acid. Dr. Kegel says, a fine looking fruit, good for taole and cooking, 

 ripe in September and will keep till December. Dr. Kegel says, most highly perfumed. 



275. SoLotoreffka; — ZolotorefF; — Mr. Tattle thinks highly of this as a fall 

 market apple. It is a large cylindrical showy apple with a good deal of color. 

 Flesh a little coarse, but juicy and spicy, with a good mingling of sweet and 

 acid, ke^ps till November. Mr. Webster speaks of it as a large showy apple, 

 very productive and ripe in October, but flittish in form and oblong, and a 

 specimen received from Mr. Webster, Mr. Tattle said was not like his own. 

 Mr. Downing has expressed a favor ible opinion of ZolotorefF, but which I do not 

 know. 



277. Wargul; — Wargul; — Dr. Kegel says that the Vargul is one of the most 

 popular apples at Voronesh. When fully ripe it is a yellowish green, with red 

 on the sunny side, covering half or three fourths of the fruit. The flesh is soft, 

 white and juicy and somewhat acid, of most agreable brisk flavor with nice after 

 taste. For its good looks and its flavor it is much liked both for the table and 

 kitchen. Season from October till the end of winter. 



279. Aportowoge Simowoe; — Winter Oporto. — This apple did not suggest to 

 Mr. Sias any Alexander parentage. The fruit was below medium in size when 

 grafted on Hislop crab; a trifle above medium, on apple root It is more flat- 

 tened and less red than Alexander. Mr. Sias has fruited it for three years and 

 rather likes it; although it is not of fine quality. The tree seems hardy. 

 Among these winter aports in Russia, we find some remarkably good apples; 

 one which we tasted in the Kozlov m vrket was just like Alexander in appear- 

 ance, but tough in texture, a mingling of sharp acid and sweet, an apple of fine 

 quality and evidently a good keeper. 



Dr. Kegel describes an Apart which keeps from October till May. Mr. Shroe- 

 der, at Petrovskoe Kisumovskoe, near Moscow, says A.port or Kaiser Alexander 

 is aromatic in flavor and keeps till spring. Mr, Wagner at Riga notes his 

 Aportapfel grosster, as a late winter apple. I mention this because Emperor 

 Alexander, which is but another name for these apples, should be imported for 

 trial from all possible sources in Kussia. 



Dr. Regel describes Winter Aport from samples received from the Garden of Mr. Atrig- 

 aniev in TchernivgoV. In color a light green and on the sunny side a dull, dark, red cov. 

 ered with carmine in splashes and stripes, covering often three-fourths of the surface. 

 Flesh, greenish white, rather crude, sour. A good kitchen apple which keeps all winter. 

 The colored print as given in Dr. Regel's book is strikingly like that which we Saw at 

 Tenki on the Volga, at Prince Gagarine's— a large, handsome, oblong, winter apple. 



285. Repristoe Walisnoe; Turnipy Juicy. — This is a large or very large, 

 somewhat oblong apple, rather better in quality than Alexander and about as 

 well colored. It carries well and keeps toward winter. A showy market fruit 

 which Mr. Tuttle thinks a good deal of. It ripens»with Alexander. 



236. Kremerskoe; Krjm3r'8; — This I saw in Mr. Sias' orchard; a rather 

 large, tender apple of good quality. Mr. Sias seems to think a great deal of 

 it. Season probably about September. 



288. Malinowskoe; Raspberry;— Mr. Tattle says fruit of medium size, bright red, very 

 beautiful and mild, pleasant sub-acid when fully ripe. Flesh quite red. Dr. Regel speaks 

 of the .Malinows'coe as an apple of which he had merely seen a specimen from the gar- 

 den of a farmer in the Province of Novgorod. I should describe it as a small apple with a 

 large wide core. It is a yellowish green and on the sunny side a reddish yellow. Flesh 



