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Stettiner Rother has been g'-own soniewhat at Warsaw, and 

 in great quantity in the North Eastern Baltic provinces of 

 Germany, whence it is shipped up the Vistula, and is the com- 

 monest apple in the Warsaw market in March and April. 



Winter Citronenapfel {Citronat). — At Kiev, where it is 

 slightly colder in winter and where the winter changes are more 

 extreme than at Warsaw, this is considered their best winter apple 

 next to Antonovka. Such was the decision of four members of 

 the Forestry Association, residents of the Government of Kiev, 

 who consulted together and gave this as their decision io Mr. 

 Budd at the Forestry Convention at Moscow. 



It is a large red apple, yellow only in the shade, a fruit of 

 high quality, that keeps till March. It was not mentioned at 

 Proskau among their best winter apples, but is a great favorite at 

 Warsaw, especially for home use, for its tender flesh does not 

 bear distant carriage. It did not seem hardy at Kursk, yet, like 

 many of these German apples, valuable where the climate is not 

 too extreme. 



PEARS. 



It may be a cause of surprise when I say that the pear is the 

 best tree I know of for maintaining a dark, glossy, healthy foliage 

 when planted on dry soil, in a climate where the summer sun is 

 hot, the nights cool, the air excessively dry, and the winters very 

 cold. Yet such is the case. In the public square at Simbirsk, in 

 latitude 54, on the Volga, a climate as severe as the City of 

 Quebec, the wild pear is a fine ornamental tree, and seems ih^ 

 tree which suff"ers least from dryness of air and diminished rain- 

 fail. I must add, too, that the one tree of largest diameter of trunk 

 which I happened to see during a journey of nearly 1,000 mile$ 

 on the Volga, was this wild form of pear ; a tree at Saratof nearly 

 lYi feet in diameter of trunk measured near the ground. 1 



At Simbirsk it was that we flrst met with extensive pear 

 culture in extreme climates. Here there must be in orchard, \ 

 should think, i q,ooo trees, and these mainly of two wild foni^, 



