152 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



14. Ants Group. Anis, No. 317, Kursk Anis, Red 

 Anis, 32 M, Russian Green, Blue Anis, Yellow Anis, 

 Pink Anis, Striped Anis, Getman. 



There were a number of varieties of Rus- 

 sian apples which the committee did not class- 

 ify, but for which they " adopted descriptions." 

 Their work, though incomplete, is one of the 

 very few American examples of the natural 

 method of classification applied to apples. 



In order to find anything like a general 

 classification of apples according to a natural 

 system, we are obliged to go to Germany the 

 land whence come many of our ideas concern- 

 ing the science of classification in general. 

 There are several more or less natural sys- 

 tems proposed in various German pomological 

 works, but the one which seems to the present 

 writer to be in all ways best and most con- 

 sistent is the Diel-Lucas system. The Ger- 

 man outline is translated herewith, and a few 

 running explanations added : 



Diel-Lucas Grouping of Apples* 

 CLASS I. CALVILLES. 



Size for the most part medium. 

 Form nearly always regularly tapering toward 

 the eye, and nearly always plainly ribbed. 



* Translated from Lucas. " Einleitung in das Studium der 

 Pomologie," p. 132. Stuttgart, 1877. 



