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grown a good deal about Moscow, and said to be a very good 

 dessert fruit that keeps a long time, in fact all winter. Farther 

 south it would not keep so long. Mr, Goegginger, at Riga, gives 

 us a minute descriptiou of it, evidently the same apple, which he 

 says is grown a good deal at Moscow, and to the south, and 

 which proves hardy in these severe climates. However, he states 

 its season to be from November to December. Its value to us 

 would depend much upon itc keeping qualities. The Anisovka, 

 so named on the Volga near K -\zan, is a sweet apple ; that at 

 Orel, Voronesh. &c., was thought to be same as Anis or same as 

 Vosnikovka, a small yellow sweet apple said to oe grown there in 

 quantity. Such is the uncertain state of nomenclature. 



Antonovka, — This is the leading apple of the Russian 

 steppes, the king apple of that vast prairie region from Tula to 



ANTONOVKA. 



the south of Kharkof, from Kozlof to Kiev, a vast prairie region 

 unsurpassed in fertility by any region on this continent. It is the 



