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380. Gruscheffka Moskoloskaja; — Moscow Pear; — I would like to .hear of this 

 as having fruited, as i^ Russia it seems to be the favorite early market apple. 

 In Middle Russias though small and white, its extreme earliness gives it value. 



882. Buzkafa Selonka; — Russian Green; — This I saw in the orchard of Mr. 

 Sias, without doubt an Anis, of the type of the Blue Anis of the Volga. It is a 

 medium-sized apple, flat conic and five sided. Flesh crude and as yet uneata- 

 ble. The fruit I saw at Mr. Tuttle's was just liKe it. This variety should be 

 tried in the far north. 



393. Zitsonnoe Zarskoe; — Imperial Citron; — A good grower and great bearer. 

 Fruit of good size and fair quality, but not of special value. September. Web- 

 ster. 



393. Krupneena; — Enormous; — An apple of Alexander type and perhaps the 

 largest of the August apples. It is light in color, shaded with red, striped with 

 red, almost covered, oval and irregular in form. Somewhat coarse, but of fair 

 quality for so large an apple, and of good sub-acid flavor. Webster. 



399. Krimskaja Seloka; — Green Crimean; — Tree not thoroughly hardy and 

 of value only for cooking. Hoskins. 



402. Borsdorfer; — Borsdorf; — This is a German, rather than a Russian apple 

 and a member of a large family. This tree has proved hardy and a good bearer 

 with Mr. Webster. Both Mr. Tuttle and Mr. Sias say that the tree is hardier 

 than the Fameuse. The frait from Mr. Webster's description is small to 

 medium, of fair appearance, firm and of flne texture, sub-aad, rich and good. 

 Dr. Hoskins says, when perfect, it looks very much like Ben Davis in form and 

 color, but smaller. It is a first-rate keeper for home use, although rather small 

 for market. 



407. Tchernoe Drewo; Blackwood; — A favorite winter dessert apple which 

 sells for extra prices on the Volga on account of its fine quality. If picked 

 early and stored in a cool place it keeps till winter or later. With Mr. Web- 

 ster it ripened early and did not seem of special value. Mr. Tuttle says; — It 

 blights. Mr. Sias says "good tree." 



410. Repka Malenka; Little Seedling; — Mr. Oliver Gibbs says that this 

 is like Duchess in form of the tree. He has seen it in Carver County, in 

 perfect health, through growing close to other trees badly blighted. It is an 

 abundant bearer, fruit small; quality unknown at that season. Mr. Webster 

 speaks of it as an enormous biennial bearer, and if thinned it attains a fair medi- 

 um size, and that it is too hard to be eatable till warm weather in Spring, when 

 it becomes tender, juicy and of fair quality and flavor. Mr. Sias says that at 

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

 was the best keeper shown. It tasted fresh and tart as if just picked from the 

 tree.* I saw thia apple at Mr. Underwoods. It seems to be of the same family 

 as the Bogdanoff, judging by its leaf, as pointed out by Mr. Budd. The Repka 

 of Ellwanger and Barry, received from Moscow, is a summer apple. 



413. Sknschapfel; Cross Apple; — This I saw in the orchard of Mr. Under- 

 wood at Lake City, Minnesota. It is without doubt an Anis of the true Red 

 Anis family. It was top grafted on crab, as is apt to be the case, and I was 

 dissappointed with the flavor of a prematurely ripened specimen. Mr. Oliver 

 Gibbs writmg to me in November, says : '' That apple you saw at Mr. Under- 

 wood's and thought might be Anis only for its lack of quality, turns out, when 



Thi.s refers to the plate exhibited by Andrew Peterson.— Secretorj/. 



