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seemed to be none other than Antonovka, yet three fruit growers 

 there each declared it to be diatinct, and said it was as hardy and 

 as productive. 



Possart's Nalivia is said, at the Pomological School at Warsaw, 

 to be a synonyme, Dr. Lucas, in one edition of his Pomology, 

 held this view, and, in another edition, thought not, and this 

 latter opinion is shared at Proskau and Riga. 



Mr. Goegginger, of Riga, after a good deal of correspondence, 

 rather thought they were not identical. Mr. Fritz Lucas now 

 inserts it in his catalogr.e as a synonyme. 



Aport. — This is ♦he family of which our Alexander is a mem- 

 ber, a large and widely scattered family and often of strong family 

 type. No accurate notes seem to have been taken of the places 

 where they live and thrive. We cannot in this country expect to 

 do such work ; the most we can do is to find out what is good 

 there, import and propagate it here. 



It is named Aport because imported long ago from Oporto in 

 Portugal, just as another Russian apple which long ago found its 

 way into Virginia, comes back to Russia via Germany under the 

 name of Virginischer Rother. 



Some of the apples we find under this name, show by their 

 features that they are near relations of the Emperor Alexander, 

 many others show no likeness whatever. Sometimes under other 

 names, we find typical apples, like the Borodovka Belui of Orel, 

 which is just like Alexander, but white. At Kursk too we find, 

 under the name of Sklianka, a fruit of Aport form, but almost with- 

 out color. 



I am not sure that we saw the Alexander iii Russia, though I 

 believe it to be grown there. At Volsk we found a fruit very like 

 it, only wanting in that slight flatness of the vase which our 

 Alexander has. In the Kozlof market we find an apple just like it, 

 though perhaps slightly larger in calyx, but it proved somewhat 

 tough in texture, a sharp acid mingled with sweet, a fine apple, 

 and it would seem a pretty good keeper. At Orel we find another, 

 alike in look, but sweet, not as good as that in Kozlof or Veronesh 

 markets. 



