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apples on the Volga, grown in quantity from Kazan to Saratof. 

 In the Government of Kazan, a little red Malite is one of their 

 favorite market apples. It is medium or small in size, flat and 

 often ribbed. The flesh is white, crisp, tender and juicy. Manjr 

 of the peasants in the villages near Kazan, place it among their 

 five best for profit, and grow it in quantity. At Simbrisk a Malite 

 has the same bright dark color, but with a bloom like pink Anis 

 and yellowish flesh ; a fine grained, juicy apple, with firm but 

 break flesh and sprightly flavor. At Saratof, Malite, I know 

 not what kind, is named among their few best apples, and is one 

 of the kinds grown there for a very long time. We find other 

 apples, too, more or less of this type. At Simbrisk we find a large 

 fall fruit somewhat resembling Duchess, and of good quality, 

 quite unlike other apples named Malite, and perhaps worthy of 

 trial. 



Red Koroshavka {Koroshavka Alui) is one of those strikingly 

 beautiful apples one cannot forget. It has the color of our 

 Victoria, a bright deep pink, and any part not so colored is as 

 nearly as possible pure white. It is usually of medium size, often 

 above, regular in outline, and never ribbed like Pink Anis. Like 

 Victoria, its flesh is a pure white, and on 29th August, firm, crude 

 acid, not ripe enough to fairly judge. This tree, like the Anis, when 

 grown in the North is dwarf in habit, and where broken down by 

 weight of snow, sound at the heart, and evidently a young and 

 abundant bearer. At Tenki it was said to keep till January. 



At Simbrisk we hear of a Koroshavka Alui which may be this. 

 The Koroshavka of Kegel is a long stalked little fruit very dif- 

 ferent from this or White Koroshavka. 



Reinette Kurski. — Mr. Shroeder describes this as a medium- 

 sized, flat, irregular, ribbed, yellow apple, named from the town 

 of Kursk. Not hardy at Moscow, but a good tree further South, 

 and a really good dessert fruit that keeps till Spring. The query 

 [to my mind is whether this may not be the Reinette Russki which 

 I we saw at Kursk, but which they would not admit to the Reinette 

 Kurski. It is a five-sided apple of the size of our Fameuse, with 

 tfed on one side. A fruit of fine quality, apparently a keeper, and 

 perhaps valuable. 



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