STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 131 



apples of the Anis family, and there are several varieties. How 

 valuable they are going to be I am not prepared to give an 

 opinion. The tree is said to be perfectly hardy, said to be the 

 most hardy of the Russian fruits. There is quite a difference in 

 the varieties belonging to the Anis family, as regards the quality 

 of the fruit. We have one known as the Anisette, which is 

 almost if not quite the Duchess; it is very similar to the Duchess; 

 the tree looks very much like a Duchess. We have also the Red 

 Anis and Yellow Anis; I cannot see unj difference between the 

 red and yellow. These are among the five varieties found by 

 Mr. Budd in Russia. 



We have another apple that we have tested enough so that we 

 are willing to put confidence in it, and that is the Longfield. I 

 don't know of any of the Russian varieties that is perhaps more 

 valuable to plant. I have fruited it for five years in succession 

 and raised a crop every year. I have the apple here. It is an 

 apple of good quality, and I think fully as good as the Fameuse; 

 and I think it is a better keeper; my apples have not rotted as much 

 as the Fameuse. Dr. Regel says of the tree that in an orchard of 

 over a hundred varieties it is the only apple that would bear every 

 year. With me it has fruited, as I say, every year for five years, 

 each year increasing its crop; and I had trees this year the most 

 heavily laden with fruit that I have ever seen. Here is a specimen 

 of the Longfield. Here is an apple that is a great keeper. That 

 tree is a great bearer, and I think the fruit will keep till June. 

 This specimen is the Longfield. 



I have another apple that came to me under the name of Lord 

 apple that is much like this one in appearance and is a little more 

 acid, rather a sharp acid, fine grained, and a very good keeper. 

 I think it is going to be a valuable tree for a late keeping apple. 

 It is a good bearer. I neglected to gather the fruit on that tree 

 until the last of October. I was told by a neighbor that he saw 

 a person carrying fruit from my orchard, and had seen him mak- 

 ing two or three trips. I examined and found no fruit left ex- 

 cept a few specimens I found in the grass; these are the ones. 

 That is a late keeper, probably as late as any I have. 



I would say that these apples were on exhibition at the county 

 and State fair. I put them in a box and they were there until 

 two weeks ago when I went and picked them out. That is the 

 Lord apple. 



I have no question in my own mind, from what I can see and from 

 my experiments with these Russian fruits, that they are going 



