Nomenclature of Our Russian Fruits. 



By lesohiMon of yoiii Society at (iraiid the names of these liusshin fruits, I'lof. 



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ADD KM) A AND K UK ATA. 



Tlio U.S. Dcpurtment of A(rricultuie, in tli« reimrt I'f its DiviHion of Pmuiilogy, in about to iiwue liHts of these Ruii.-iian fniita, in ali)halM'tical order, 

 pre|)ftrml by Hon. T. T. Lyon, President of tlie MicliiKan State Hortioultaral Society. Tlina, thene '• BUKKentionx " of mine iiave nnexiM-ctedly beconi'e 

 fixed and unchangeable ; tliat ia, owing to thwir appearance in the Am. I'om. Soc m report, and at the game time by Mr. Lyon in the U.S. report, it will 

 be found unadviKable to make uny change except for «omo glaring mistake. 



As accuracy is everything in xnch work, I append a list of ty|>ographical errors. 



by Dr. Hegel to Mr. Wm. Saunders, of 

 the Agricultural Departuieut at Wasli- 

 ingtoD, was lost at the ilussiaii embassy 

 there, and Mr. Saunders was tlius forced 

 to issue it in the form in which it was re- 

 turned to him. 



1 also had, last winter, several inter- 

 views with Count Ale.\.eetf, of Moscow, a 

 Russian physician and scientist, who has 

 aided nie very rnuoii in this work. 



Owing to the confusiou existing among 



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1. uiiicj;, iii^w iimiit'Lie raiiier 

 than Queen. I have also retained the word 

 Niiliv, wliich is apj)licd to the Skvosnoi, 

 (ilasapfel or Klarapfel, or Poinrne Trans- 

 parente, and technically does not mean 

 ■'juicy." Unmusical names like '"Cut 

 Apple" and "Smelling Ai)ple" 1 have 

 thought best to change. 



Names in the Russian 'column in 

 brackets, are names which do not apjiear 

 in Hegel's Russkaya Pomologaya pub- 

 lished in 1H()H. 



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