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Mr. Shroeder describes Aport as a very large, flat, conic apple 

 with a red side, of aromatic flavor, not productive and too heavy 

 and liable to be blown from the tree, yet grown a good deal to the 

 South of Moscow, at Orel, Tula &c., the best of the Aports. This. 

 I suppose, is our Alexander, but I cannot be certain. 



In the report of the Royal Hort. Soc. of London for 1822, the 

 Alexander is mentioned as having been received from Riga and is 

 stated to be a native of Southern Russia. It was most probably 

 received from the late M. Wagner, grandfather of M. Chs. Henri 

 Wagner. 



The Aport Ossemie or Winter Aport, Mr. Fischer, at Voronesh, 

 says, is like Titovka, in fact often diflicult to tell apart, although the 

 one is a summer and the other a winter fruit. This seems like 

 the apple we saw under this name on the Volga at Tenki, at Prince 

 Gagarine's, and very like the colored print of the Aport ossemie 

 given by Dr. Regel. It is a large oblong handsome winter apple. 

 It and what we saw in Kozlof market I should think the most 

 valuable of the apples known there as Aport. Of the summ.er Aports 

 I seem to know nothing. On the Volga we saw several kinds, 

 always large, usually well colored, and of fair quality, but none that 

 specially struck me as of special value to us. I do not know 

 that they have any just right to the name Aport, yet that name 

 seems to be thought applicable to large apples. 



Arabka {Arabskoe). Under this name there are one or more 

 apples of decided promise. At Moscow, Mr. Shroeder tells us of ai 

 large conic apple of very deep color which is a long keeper. The 

 tree he finds a little tender at Moscow, but says that it is grown a^ 

 good deal in central Russia. In the market at Kozlof, we find 

 what would appear to be this apple, in fair quantity, and known as 

 Arabka, and specimens taken to Voronesh were recognized by Mr. 

 Fischer, Director of the Botanic Gardens, who considers it a 

 valuable cooking apple that keeps till May; but he added that, that 

 which he had received from Riga, under that name, had proved to 

 be Gros Mogul. At Volsk, on the Volga, in latitude 52, we found in 

 an orchard, about 12 trees in profuse bearing, of an apple known 

 there as Tchougounka, which means cast>iron ; the fruit was 



