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' In Centre! Russia we find many varieties superior in fruit, 

 though not so hardy nor such reliable bearers. At Tula, varieties 

 kno\frn as the rose, white rose, dark rose, black and white Spanish 

 are recommended, and yet the query suggests itself whether they 

 may not have been planted on an incline and bend down as the 

 Reine Claude plums are. At Voronesh, many have been selected, 

 but not under known names. Among them the Proseratchnaya 

 Rosenia, a rosy cherry of transparent type, propagated by grafting. 

 At Simbirsk, we hear of a cherry almost black, and larger than 

 Vladimir, known as Roditelskaya. At Khvalinsk, a cherry known 

 as the Turkish, seemed hardy, and said to bear very large fruit. 



Amor ; the cherries grown in Russia, at Kursk and Voronesh, 

 and southwards, we find trees whose foliage would appear to be 

 crosses between the Griotte or sour cherry, and the Guigne or 

 sweet cherry of heart or brigarreau type. As a class they are not 

 equal in hardiness to Vladimir or Ostheim, yet most valuable in 

 climates of moderate severity. 



Of other German cherries, I would mention Szklanki, or Glas- 

 kische doppette, a Polish seedling, said to be a hardy and good 

 bearer, of fruit the size of Ostheim, and much like it in flavor, but 

 red in color, and with yellowish flesh. Leigel's Fruh Weichel, a 

 fair-sized tree of Ostheim foliage, dark-purplish skin and flesh, and 

 much of Ostheim character. The Kleparovska, another Polish 

 cherry, from Gallicia, near Lemberg, has proved very hardy at 

 Warsaw. Shatten Amarel, a large dark red cherry of mild flavor, 

 and of Ostheim foliage. A short stalked Amarel, of which I can- 

 not give the proper name, which is coming into great favor about 

 Berlin and other places. Amarel Tardive, a weeping tree of Os- 

 theim leaf, dark purplish red, and somewhat acid. Rose Char- 

 meux, a large, red, mild, delicate, watery, mild-flavored fruit. Lu- 

 tovka, a large, good, yellow fleshed, red cherry, and a hardy tree. 

 In the German or Amana colonies on the Iowa River, in John- 

 son County, Iowa, colonies which moved to their present place 

 from tho State of JNew York, Mr. Budd tells me that there is grown 

 in quantity, in each of their seven villages, a variety of the bird 

 cherry, which bears young and abundantly a fruit which they value 



