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(;roui> in. — (JRAND Alexander (I'igs. 23 and 24). 



These forms are largely distributed abroad. Andrew Leroy, in his Dic- 

 tionary of Pomology, writes that this apple was received from Russia in 181 7, 

 by a nurseryman named 1-ee, at Hammersmith, London, and is named by him 

 in honor of the Emperor, Alexander I. From this time it commanded the 



attention of fruit growers in Western Europe. Fig. 2; 

 greenish, with occasional spots, and, on the sunny side, striped with carmine 

 Fig. 24, which, from its outline, may be considered the type of all Aports, has 

 yellowish-green skin, brown on the sunny side, without any signs of stripes, very 

 few spots. The flesh of both apples is greenish, fine-grained, tender, sub acid. 

 The latter variety keeps better than the former. 



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