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prunifolia form like the Good Peasant. Here it is spoken of as 

 their earliest apple, white, sweet, of medium size, and good quality. 

 At Tula we are told it is their earliest apple. Evidently from all 

 we hear rather a favorite. The German Grushevka Mr. Shroeder 

 says is much like it, but a little better in quality, and a week later. 

 That called Grushevka at Kazan was a hard, yellow, fall fruit ; 

 neither must we confound it with the Gusevka of Kegel which is 

 described as a large winter cooking apple, but it is without doubt 

 the Grushevka Moskovka of Dr. Regel. 



Kalamas. — Under this name we saw in one of the Peasant 

 villages, in the Government of Kazan, an apple of medium or large 

 size, deep red, with a light bloom, the beautiful color of the pink 

 Anis, but larger, and marked with little dots. The flesh was green- 

 ish white crude and unripe. Such a beautiful fruit, thriving in so 

 cold a climate should not be lost sight of. 



KoRiTscHNOVOiE Ananasnoe (literally the Cinnamon Pine- 

 apple). — This Mr. Fischer says is a small flat fruit of dark 

 brownish red color, and very fine flavor. The tree, too, has proved 

 very hardy at Voronesh. Mr. Shroeder speaks of its hardiness, its 

 earliness, and aromatic flavor. At Orel, too, we hear it well 

 spoken of. A fine flavored early apple it would seem. The Kor. 

 Anan. of Regel seems very different. 



KORITSCHNOVOIE PoLASATOE. — This is the tree that stood the 

 extreme cold in 1877, at Petrovskoe, when the thermometer went 

 down to 44 below Zero. Mr. Shroeder says that it is much like 

 Ananasnoe but striped, and ripens a month later, and keeps longer. 

 This apple we saw to some extent in Central Russia. In the 

 markets, when piled in pyramidal form, stalks upwards, they 

 looked like small Duchess. However, the basin is more shallow, 

 the form more conic. It has a peculiar flavor, and is quite good. 

 A fall fruit which has proved quite profitable in cold climates. 



Lead Apple (Svinsovka). — Mr. Shroeder says is a small, hard 

 green cooking apple that keeps till the New Year, or till new 

 apples, I am not sure which. We hear of it at Orel and at 

 Voronesh, and as Mr. Fischer says, it is much like Zelonka. 



Malite {Malt). — This name has been given to a number of 



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