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would think, otherwise quite good. A good kite keeper for cold 

 climates." 



"The Zelonka Moldavlm of Voronesh is an apple I wish to draw 

 special attention to. The specimen we had was large oblong, a solid 

 api)le with a texture somewhat like a Rhode Island Greening, firm, 

 acid, with very little sweetness. We got it at Voronesh on 13th 

 Sept., and this description was made when tasted at Warsaw on 

 Oct. 4th. It had been kept in our apple bag but had not suffered. 

 Mr. Fischer showed us trees which seemed hardy and healthy, the 

 fruit has the points of a first-rate cooking apple, and is a fair eating- 

 apple, a A^ariety of great promise." 



TrrovKA, {Titus apple.) — A large handsome fruit to be seen in 

 quantity, in all the markets of the Volga, and of Middle Russia. It 

 looks like a large ribbed, elongated Duchess, and on account of its 

 large size and attractive color, very salable and therefore valuable. 

 At Simbirsk it is considered one of the most profitable. At Tenki, 

 near Kazan, it is a success, both in nursery and orchard, and from 

 what we saw would seem to have been grown there for man\- ^ears. 

 At Tula we see one very old tree of it, a survivor of an ancient 

 orchard, killed by a severe winter many years ago. It is therefore 

 a tree that thrives in the severest climates. It would not be safe to 

 assume it to be quite as hardy as Anis of Autonovka, 3-et it is not 

 very far from it. The flesh is coarse, but juic}- and mildly acid, 

 quite good, not at all disappointing, rather better than Duchess, 

 because less acid. In season it is not one of the earliest, yet is a 

 summer or late summer fruit." * * * * 



Virginischer Rosenapfle. — It is strange how a fruit may wander 

 to distant lands, and generations after, return to its native land 

 unrecognized. We first saw this in the nursery of the Pomological 

 School at Proskau, and Mr. Budd declared that it must be the 

 " Fourth of July." We then looked up the east of the fruit in the 

 museum and so it seemed to be. Why should it have the name 

 Virginia unless it had been there, and how in those earl3- days get 

 there except via England. Yes, we may suppose it to have been 

 included in those importations from Russia, made during the lifetime 

 of the late Andrew Knaight, and thence found its way to Virginia. 

 Its name becoming lost, it was grown westward and northward in 

 America as the Fourth of July, and returns to Russia, the land of 



