152 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



14. Anis 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. 



