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34 CHEURIES RECEIVKI) AND DIKTRIBUTED. 



CHERRJKS ' 



Many viirietios of ('herries have of Into been importod which were hitliPito un- 

 known, or but little known in this country. However, except the Vladimir, HcHsar- 

 abian, Lutovka and the Lyonskaya, wiiich List comes to iih with any rate ii RiisHian 

 name, they have Gorman or Frencli names, and so need not bo mentioned here 



In concliiHiori, I would Hay that we have been in f,'reat need of authoritative action 

 in the naming of new t'oreiRii fruits We here have a suggestion to our authoritative 

 body I have been critical iii)on what work has been done J cannot refuse to 

 stand shot Fair criticism siiouhl so far bring to light the faults of this work as to 

 bring about its adoption in modified form at the next meeting of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society 





NOTES. 



No. 2()5, Pipka gorkaya k literally the 

 Bitter Pipka, but Mr. Schroeder, of Mos- 

 cow, says It is by no means bitter, and a 

 fine sub-acid apple, which received its 

 name from the town of Crorke, whore it 

 originated; and yet if so it should have 

 been named Pipka Goretskaya. '208, Za- 

 koritnoe, which means a dug-out trough, 

 or which might mean a velvety apple, 

 must not be confused with Sacharnaya, 

 Sacharine. 231, Zolotoi arkad. Golden 

 Arcad, nmst not be mistaken for 188 and 

 237, Yellow Arcad. 310, Christapfel is a 

 fairly accurate translation of 447 Rosh- 

 destvenskoe. 2^)5, Imperial is not in Re- 

 gel, but might bo a translation of 208, 

 Korolevskoe, or of such a name as Tsars- 

 koe. 350 and 554, Lapouchoe, are trans- 

 lated Burr, but Dr. Alexeeff tells me that 

 although (to be more exact) Lapukhoe 

 may mean Burr, yet Lipoukhoe (a dis- 

 tinction I can hardly make in English let- 

 ters) means Great Ears. This latter is 

 that described by Regel, and I have there- 

 fore retained the Russian name. 413, 

 Skrijapel, as it appears in Russian, in 

 Regel, is translated Cross. The termina- 

 tion " anel " the Russianized form of 

 "apfel" betokened (lerman origin, but 



Germans would not recognize it, and I 

 had said it was not Cross. It did not then 

 occur to me that it was Danish. 437, 

 Sachoiswan, pu/zles both Dr. Regel and 

 Mr. Albert Regel. The name seems un- 

 kuown to tlusm, and the Doctor can only 

 suggest that it might be intended for 

 Sacharnoe, Sacharine, or perhaps Zakor- 

 itnoe. The ai)pie must have a name, so I 

 have retained the name Saxonian. Tjijl, 

 Arbuzovskoo I have left as Watermelon, 

 even though it is named after Mr. Arbu- 

 zoff, Mr. Watermelon. r>(),'j, Vorgunok, 

 must not be confused with Vargulek or 

 Vorgulek. .584, I have used Knlbeer in- 

 stead of Strawberry as we have so many 

 strawberry ajjples. 5!>0, Romnenskoe or 

 Romenskoe ? Regel in his pomology gives 

 the fornjer, as coming from Romna, near 

 Moscow; but in liis catalogues of late 

 years, he gives Romenskoe, as though 

 from the town of Romensk. Mr. Schroe- 

 dor, of Moscow, in his Plodovui Sad, in 

 1886, adheres to Romnenskoe. Mr. Albert 

 Regel says he does not know, but says 

 that Romna is not a fruit growing region, 

 and Romensk is; leaving the chances in 

 favor of the latter. 1 mention this to 

 show that accuracy is not always possible. 



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