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ViRGiNiscHER RosENAPFEL. — It is Strange how a fruit may 

 wander to distant lands, and generations after, return to its 

 native land unrecognized. We first saw this in the nursery of the 

 Pomological School at Proskau, and Mr. Budd declared that it must 

 be the " Fourth of July." We then looked up the cast of the fruit 

 in the museum and so it seemed to be. Why should it have the 

 name Virginia unless it had been there, and how in those early 

 days get there except via England. Yes, we may suppose it to 

 have been included in those importations from Russia, made 

 during the lifetime of the late Andrew Knaight, and thence found 

 its way to Virginia. Its name becoming lost, it was grown west- 

 ward and northward in America as the Fourth of July, and returns 

 to Russia, the land of its ancestors, even if not the land of its birth, 

 as the Virginischer Rosenapfel. 



White Koroshavka. — This is a favorite apple in the markets 

 at Nijni Novgorod and Kazan, and is grown in fair quantity along 

 the Volga for market purposes. It is an early apple, yet not one 

 of the earliest, a fair sized white fruit with little marblings and 

 stripes of red ; tender, rather juicy, and so mildly acid as to incline 

 to be almost sweet, but nice and pleasant, invariably good, and 

 therefore better in quality than Skrute, though perhaps hardly grown 

 in as great quantity. We find it grown largely in the villages in 

 Kazan, and apparently quite hardy there, so that its hardiness one 

 need not have doubts about ; yet a friend at Simbrisk in a trying 

 soil and situation finds in the long run that neither the White nor 

 Red Koroshavka are equal in hardiness to the Anis and Antonovka, 

 yet for all that a hardy tree, and I would say, a good summer 

 apple lacking neither in beauty nor in good quality. 



Of the coast apples in Russia I seem to know very little. We 

 had no opportunity of seeing them in bearing. The climate is not | 

 our climate, yet their experience is valuable. Dr. Regel selected 

 out of a longer list 41 kinds which he recommended, and out of 

 these he marked ten kinds with double stars. These ten kinds are 

 Antonovka, Aport (autumn), Borovinka, Belui Naliv, Red Summer 

 Calville, Koritschnevoe (Zimmetapfel), Koritschnevoe Ananasnoe,] 

 Polosatoe Novgorodskoe, Skvosnoe Naliv, Skriusapfel, Titovka. 



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