varieties sent out by them have become known. However, the 

 sound "ov" or "off" positively must not be spelled " ou " or 

 " ow " as in Antonouka, Titowka, and for convenience we have 

 used " ov " as in Antonovka, Titovka. 



But one book, I believe, has been written on Russian Pomo- 

 logy, that by Dr. Edward Kegel, Director o the Imperial Botanic 

 Gardens at St. Petersburg, and published in 1868. This book was 

 criticized severely, at the time of its issue, by some of the Euro- 

 pean journals ; but I cannot help feeling that the critics did no 

 take in a full view of the situation. Dr. Kegel, in the fickle 

 climate of St. Petersburg, was unable to test very many of the 

 varieties he described, able only to describe them as received, 

 and under such names as they were received by. The fact is. Dr. 

 Kegel did his full fair share towards the doing of a great work, 

 and, as Mr. Budd observed, had this been followed up by the 

 organization of a National Pomological Society, Russian nomen- 

 clature would now be in a very different state. 



Mr. Shroeder, of the Agricultural College at Petrovskoe 

 Rasumovskoe at Moscow, has very complete notes compiled from 

 specimens and information received from different parts of Russia. 

 These apples were, for the most part, received for trial on the 

 College Farm, but I regret to say, that the unusual cold of the 

 winter of 1877 and the cold clay soil upon which they are 

 planted has been against them. 



This collection was very large and contained the greater part 

 of the best apples of the steppe climates. It is much to be regret- 

 ted that these notes of Mr, Shroeder's, the work, in fact, has not 

 been published. Mr. Shroeder has not visited the orchards from 

 whence the grafts and fruits were obtained, yet his notes we found 

 singularly exact. Such was the opinion we gradually formed as 

 we continued our work in the Russian orchards. 



Pomology is a neglected science in Russia. What has been 

 done seems to be local individual work, not united work. Strange 

 this neglect on the part of a Government which has founded such 

 Botanic gardens, a Government which has done such noble work, 

 for future generations in its Forestry Department. ' " . '■'-■■" 







