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462. Rubez Sclonniu; Greencut;— The Rubets Sclonui, Dr. Kegel says is 

 grown in the Coast Provinces, also at Moscow and southward; also, says Baron 

 Tiesenhausen, in the Province of St. Petersburgh. It is a medium sized fruit, 

 yellowish green with a little red on one side. Good for cooking only. Tree 

 healthy but not productive. 



463. Pipka Postillnaja; Spreading Pipka; — A small apple of Duchess type, 

 sour, dry, flaverless, condemned, (Hoskins.j 



469. Babuschkino; — Grandmother; — Judging merely from the leaf, as ex- 

 amined by Mr. Budd, this would appear to be the same as that received by him 

 from some other places in Russia. 



Dr. Eegel says that lie received the Babuschkino from Moscow and that it is grown 

 in that province and the provinees to tne south. It seems to be an apple of full me- 

 dium size, yellow, with a little red. It has an agreeable, vinous acid and aromatic 

 flavor. Dr. Kegel recommends it as a line dess rt apple, said to keep till August of the 

 next year. 



472. Ostrekowskaja Steklianka; — Ostrekoff's Glass; — This I saw in the 

 orchard of Mr. Underwood. A small, green apple, very conic and very wrink- 

 led at the calyx, and without basin. Its length of stem I forget. Mr. Shroeder, 

 at Moscow, describes it to me as a small, dark green apple, with dull, red sides; 

 conic, with corrugated basin and long stem. He says the tree is hardy and that 

 it is even a good dessert apple, and keeps till the following summe.\ Dr. Re- 

 gel, in his "work, seems to describe the same apple as a hardy tree and a heavy 

 annual bearer, and says that it is a fruit of medium size, a native of Tula, and 

 named after a merchant there. Mr. Budd, on reading my description, queries 

 whether this may be the same as the Astrachan Pippin, which he received from 

 Moscow, which, however, Mr. Budd says "is a true Steklianka and the keeper of 

 all the keepers I have yet seen from Russia." Mr. Budd says that he took that 

 apple to the Iowa winter horticultural meeting, jammed in a valise full of 

 books, but it arrived sound and too hard and crude for eating. We saw just 

 such apples in Russia, and carried them about with us to try to find out their 

 names. The cut of this apple, herewith given, is very unlike the fruit grown 

 by Mr. Underwood. It is from ajdrawing taken in'' the department grounds by 

 Mr. Wm. Saunders. [The OstrekofF Glass reported by Andrew Peterson, ot 

 Carver county, is probably untrue to name. His resembles the Lieby and the 

 Hibernal in fruit, while all others who are fruiting from this name and number, 

 (472) so far as heard from, describe it substantially as here given by Mr. Gibb. — 



Secretary.] 



476. Arkad Rother ;— Red Arcade ;— Dr. Kegel says that this originated in the gov- 

 ernment of Echernigov ; a very scarce apple which he only saw from one garden there. 

 He says further that it is doing well in his pomological garden at St. Petersburg, and 

 speaks of its beauty and long keeping qualities, yet strange enough it is not on the list 

 whicli Dr. Kegel recommended to us for trial, nor even in his general catalogue, nor 

 was it among the apples he sent to Mr. Budd in 1879. Dr. Kegel may have lost it. 



Mr. Saunders at Washington does not become enthusiastic over it: he merely 

 says good early apple, fully ripe 4th of July. The word Rother would seem to 

 imply German habitat. 



477. Roschdestwenskoe;— Christ Birth Apple;— That grown by Ellwanger and 

 Barry, of Rochester, was received from Moscow, and would hardly seem by the 

 description to be the high conic, ong stalked apple described by Mr. Shroeder. 

 It is a valuable winter apple in Russia, and I would like to hear of it having 

 been fruited irom the department catalogue. 



