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THE BOROVITSKY APPLE. 



Bovovitsky Apple. Hort, Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 110. 



So few of the early summer Apples which are 

 commonly cultivated possess any merit, that it is 

 very desirable to substitute some new kinds. The 

 Sugar Loaf Pippin has already been figured in this 

 work ; and the present, also of Russian origin, has 

 been found worthy of a second place. It was sent 

 to the Horticultural Society from the Taurida 

 Gardens near St. Petersburgh, by Mr. Martin Miller 

 Call, in 1824 : it ripens in the middle of August, and 

 keeps well for about three weeks. 



Wood flexuose, dull grayish-brown purple, 

 slightly downy, and marked sparingly with cine- 

 reous specks. 



Leaves large, ovate oblong, of rather a thin 

 substance, doubly and acutely crenated, shining 

 above, and slightly pubescent beneath ; petioles 

 long, and deeply tinged with purplish red ; stipules 

 smooth, linear-lanceolate. 



Fruit middle-sized, roundish, and rather angu- 

 lar ; eye seated in rather a large cavity, and sur- 

 rounded by a few small plaits. Stalk about an 

 inch long, inserted in a deep and rather wide cavity. 



