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when some distance off, of one variety of the Anis. This is the 

 Anis Alui or Pink Anis, and, I suppose, the same as the Anis 

 Rosovoi or Rose Anis spoken of at Simbirsk and other places on 

 the Volga. It is an oblate apple of full medium size, or about 

 the size of the Fameuse, the colorof our Decarie. mostly a deep 

 pink with a light blue bloom. In these dry climates we may 

 expect high color. When we were on the Volga it was too early 

 to taste it in good condition, and besides this, it is often picked 

 too early, perhaps, to reach distant markets by a certain time. 

 Whether it will color and ripen on its way to market, like a 

 Duchess, or whether, like our St. Lawrence, it will almost cease to 

 mature after it is picked from the tree, I cannot say. The grain, 

 is fine, the flesh white and firm. It is really a dessert apple of 

 fine quality. It often sells at two roubles per pood, that is one 

 dollar per thirty-six po'.mds, when poorer fruit is selling at thirty 

 cents, and under Russian care it keeps till late winter or spring. 



On account of its beauty and hence its salableness this Pink 

 Anis is the most valuable of the family, and, therefore, when 

 importing let us be sure to get it. It would seem to be the Anis 

 of Mr. Shroeder, at Petrovskoe, but would appear not to be the 

 Anis Alui of Kazan, of Dr. Regel, which is described as acid, and 

 valuable only for cooking, unless this is Dr. Regel's verdict of its 

 quality when grown in the cooler and moister summer of St. 

 Petersburg. 



There are other varieties of the Anis which differ but little in 

 tree, yet differ more widely in texture of flesh, but they are not so 

 pretty. At Simbrisk the Blue Anis is spoken of as the best for 

 shipping very long distances as Perm and Siberia. 



The Anis Belui, of Kazan, is not an Anis, but is an early 

 autumn yellow apple of small size and fine quality. It is not a 

 keeper, and yet is often gathered from the tree into a barrel of 

 buckwheat hulls and put at once into a cold place, and thus kept till 

 mid-winter and even later. As Mr. Budd suggests, this possibly 

 is the Anis Koritschnevoe of Mr. Shroeder. 



Anisovka. — Under this name Mr. Shroeder tells us of a 

 medium sized, flat, yellowish green apple, with bright red side, 



