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country and became known everywhere as the Duchess of Olden- 

 bnrg. This apple we did not see in Russia At Tenki, in tlie 

 (Toverninent of Kazan, in a peasant orchard, we saw trees in full 

 bearing of a fruit which both Mr. Budd and I looking carefully at it 

 thought to be Duchess ; but on tasting it we found it so fine in grain 

 and so mildly acid, that we felt that no such difference in texture 

 and flavor could result from change of soil and climate." * * * 



''Grand Mother {Babouahkino) is described by Mr. Shroeder as 

 a beautiful bright red medium sized oblate apple of fine quality. 

 At Voronesh, Mr. Fischer says it is a good and productive tree, 

 and an excellent large sized apple that keeps till March. Mr. 

 Kegel describes it as an apple of first quality that keeps till Ma}'. 

 What we saw under this name were above medium size, fiat rather, 

 with a large thick stalk; flesh white, firm, breaking, juicy, fine 

 grained, unripe, but showing ever\- sign of fine qualitv, and of being 

 a long keeper. Its appearance is against it, yet these hard}' long 

 keepers deserve thorough trial." 



"Red Koroshavka {KoroshavJia AJni) is one of those strik- 

 ingly beautiful apples one cannot forget. It has the color of our 

 Victoria, a bright deep pink, and any part not so colored is as ncarh' 

 as possible pure white. It is usually of medium size, often above, 

 regular in outline, and never ril)bed liked Pink Anis. Like Victoria, 

 its flesh is a pure white, and on 2lJth August, firm, crude acid, not 

 ripe enough to fairly judge. This tree, like the Anis, when grown 

 in the North is dwarf in habit, and where broken down by weight 

 of snow, sound at the heart, and evidenth' a young and abundant 

 bearer. At Tenki it was said to keep till January'." 



'•'■ Skrnisopff'l. — Dr. Kegel speaks of this as an excellent table 

 apple that keeps until the following Summer, and says that the tree 

 endures the coldest Winters at St. Petersburg, and has been grown 

 at Moscow, Tula, «fcc. Mr. Shroeder says it is a medium or small- 

 sized apple, striped (but perhaps this only on one side, I am not 

 sure,) a very hardy tree, an ai)ple of really good quality ; good for 

 dessert and cooking, that keeps sometimes till August. Tlie tree 

 has branches like a Scott's Winter, which cannot easily be torn out. 

 The fruit, as we saw it, green, with a little dull red, beginning to 

 appear on one side, and very heavy. Flesh grccni.sh, juicy, rather 

 tender, crude, and but very mildly acid, when ripe lacking acid one 



