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What I did say was that Dr. Eegel, in 1869, was a much better 

 botauist than pomologist. When he sent the great list of vari- 

 eties to the Dejiartment of Agriculture at Washington he was 

 experimenting with near two hundred varieties of the apple, 

 from Dr. Lucus, of Eentlingen, and with about two hundred more 

 from Lithuria, Dorpat, Vilna. and other points too near the 

 water. 



Yet this great collection forwarded by Dr. Eegel contained a 

 number of valuable sorts grown in Central Eussia. These Mr. 

 Tuttle has diligently been sorting out for the past fifteen years, 

 and he has added to them by direct importation from Moscow. 

 I knew all this before I went on an exploring trip to the great 

 east plain, and regret deeply the impression of Mr. Tuttle that 

 I do not unite with the whole North in thanking him for the im- 

 portance of advance work he has been quietly carrying forward 

 at Baraboo. In this great work of adapting fruits to the prai- 

 ries of the immense Northwest we need united effort. Mr. Tut- 

 tle has aided our work by kindly forwarding cions of most of 

 his varieties, and in turn we may be able to aid his work by the 

 correction of nomenclature and in the way of finding out where 

 this or that variety will succeed best. 



Our inspection of Eussian orchards in many provinces, and 

 long talks with the best pomologists of the steppes of Europe, 

 will aid materially in proper naming and distributing the many 

 varieties of the families of Eussian apples to which Mr. Tuttle 

 refers. He is slightly mistaken in the belief that not much is 

 yet to be done in the way of introducing best sorts. As an in- 

 stance he speaks of Lord's apple. This is not the true Herren 

 apple of Livonia, but is a member of the great family known as 

 Arabka. Again he says he has all of the Anis family we name. 

 Of the department list the only true Anis I have seen is No. 382, 

 which Dr. Eegal called Buf kaja Selonka, and this is not the 

 fine red Anis of which we saw tens of thousands of bushels on 

 the Volga. The Selonka of Central Eussia is a yellowish green, 

 winter apple, and a member of the great family known as Sklanka, 

 all of which are winter sorts. Our collection contains very many 

 varieties from the black soil sections of Central Eussia, selected 

 by such experts as Dr. Fischer, Dr. Tretjackoff, and Dr. Shrader. 

 These will be the tests in the much needed correction of the Eus- 

 sian nomenclature. The report of Mr. Gibb, of Quebec, on this 

 subject will give some idea of this great work. 



I have started a large ledger in which is opened an account 

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