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popular, but so variable in quality that I have thought there must 

 be more than one apple in the markets under this name. Often 

 its cavity is very shallow, and the stem like a peg that has been 

 driven in, but this is not always so. Though fine-grained and 

 juicy, it is sometimes woolly and flavorless, so that I cannot recom- 

 mend it, in spite of its wide popularity in those cold climates. 



Sklianka {Steklanka Zelonka). In this family there are some 

 apples of the Rhode Island Greening type which promise to be 

 very valuable. 



Mr. Shroeder describes the S. Ostrovkaya, as a small conic 

 green apple with a dull red side, long stalk and corrugated basin, 

 good for cooking and dessert. It keeps till Summer, and is a good 

 hardy Russian tree grown more in the south-west, a variety con- 

 sidered valuable by Mr. Shroeder. The S. Pestrui, or Sandy 

 Sklianka, Mr. Shroeder says is a sour cooking fruit of medium size, 

 greenish yellow, with some red that keeps till or into Winter. We 

 probably met with both these apples, and yet we cannot be sure. 



At Volsk we saw trees of this Sklianka type, bearing profusely, 

 and yet full medium in size ; surely the fruit would be large when 

 bearing in moderation. It was green, rarely with some red on one 

 side, very firm, crude, acid, with some slight sweetness. The tree 

 seemed quite hardy at Volsk, and there seemed no doubt as to its 

 bearing or keeping qualities. I believe we saw this same fruit in 

 the Saratof market. 



The Zelonka Moldavka of Voronesh is an apple I wish to 



draw special attention to. The specimen we had was large and 



oblong, a solid apple with a texture somewhat like a Rhode Island 



Greening, firm, acid, with very little sweetness. We got it at 



Voronesh on 13th Sept., and this description was made when 



j tasted at Warsaw on Oct. 4th. It had been kept in our apple bag 



I but had not suff"ered. Mr. Fischer showed us trees which seemed 



I hardy and healthy, the fruit has the points of a first-rate cooking 



[apple, and is a fair eating apple, a variety of great promise. 



Dr. Regel describes several varieties of Sklianka, among other 

 Ithe Sklianka Revalskaya, a yellowish fruit with a little red on one 

 side, grown at Pskov, Petersburg, and other places, usually hardy. 



