The Canadian Horticnltnrist. 



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the more northern portions of this Lindsay is about 260 miles north 



Province by creating and maintain- of the latitude of N:;\v York 



ing erroneous impressions as to the City. 



capabilities of its soil and climate is The Siberian Pea tree so highly 

 due principally to thoughtlessness on recommended on page 200 is not a 

 the part of our southern neighbors, beautiful object here during the sum- 

 In the July number, Canadian Hor- mer months. It is perfectly hardy 

 TicuLTURisT, page 192, P. B. Mead, and has very beautiful foliage until 

 writing of the Yucca Fildiiiciitosd — the hot dr\- weather sets in, but not 

 a southern plant — says it can be afterwards. When the thermometer 

 " successfully grown in the latitude shows the temperature to be above 

 of New York, and cvoi fid'tlicr )iortJi eighty degrees, the leaves quickly 

 with a slight protection." A num- change their beautiful green color to 

 ber of fine specimens are now in full a sickly, yellowish brown, and it re- 

 bloom on my lawn where they have mains an unsightly object on the 

 grown without protection. They lawn during the remainder of the 

 were planted many years ago. season. — ^uly ijth, i88g. 



LETTERS FROM RUSSIA.— I 



By Jaroslav Niemetz, Colncillok ui Siate, OuEsbA. (Original in Fraich.) 



I. STONE ANTONOVKA. 



ONE of the finest of Russian 

 apples, the white (ordinary) 

 Antonovka is well known in America, 

 although it has there unfortunately 

 lost its Russian name, and is cul- 

 tivated there under other names. 

 " Queen of the Steppes " is the name 

 which has been given it by the cele- 

 brated Prof. Budd. In the provinces 

 of southern Russia, where it keeps 

 until October, it is not counted 

 among the winter apples, and is re- 

 placed by an apple which they call 

 here " Lipovoe " (Linden apple). 

 The finest qualities of the Antonovka 

 are developed only in northern Rus- 

 sia, and there is no reason to doubt 

 that in America it will succeed best in 

 the North. That apple has several 



varieties in Russia, of which the best 

 is w^ithout doubt the " Antonovka 

 longovia " (meadow) or " Ramen- 

 naia" (Ramen signifies stone), which 

 is a veritable winter apple, not only 

 in the South but also in the North. 

 Having only some ver)- insignificant 

 distinguishing points, it is very diffi- 

 cult to identify the " Stone-Anton- 

 ovka," and it is necessary to have 

 long practise to be able to recognize 

 the two trees, but the former grows 

 more slowly, is less umbrageous, and 

 the wood is so hard that it scarcely 

 yields to a knife ; in one word, this 

 apple tree occupies among the others 

 the place which the oak occupies 

 among the forest trees. The great 

 difference is in the fruit. That of 

 the Stone Antonovka is not so long 



