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CHEERIES RECEIVED AND DISTRIBUTED. 



CHEERIBS. 



Many varieties of Cherries have of late been imported .which were hitherto un- 

 known, or bat httle known in this country. However, except the Vladimir, Bessar- 

 abian, Lutovka and the Lyonskaya, which last comes to us with any rate a Eussian . 

 name, they have German or French names, and so need not be mentioned here. 



In conclusiou, I would say that we have been in great need of authoritative action 

 in the naming of new foreign fruits. We here have a suggestion to our authoritative 

 body. I have been critical upon what work has been done. 1 cannot refuse tc 

 stand shot. Fair criticism should 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- 

 logioal Society 



NOTES. 



•No. 265, Pipka gorkaya is 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 Gorke, where it 

 originated; and yet if so it should have 

 been named Pipka Goretskaya. 268, 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, must not be mistaken for 188 and 

 237, Yellow Arcad. 310, Christapfel is a 

 fairly accurate translation of 447 Eosh- 

 destvenskoe. 295, Imperial is not in Ee- 

 gel, but might be 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 Lapoukhoe (a dis- 

 tinction I can hardly make in English let- 

 ters) means Great Bars. This latter is 

 that described by Eegel, and I have there- 

 fore retained the Eussian name. 413, 

 Skrijapel, as it appears in Eussian, in 

 Eegel, is translated Cross. The termina- 

 tion " apel " the Eussianized form of 

 ^'apfel" betokened German origin, but 



Germans would not recognize it, and I- 

 had said it was not Cross. Itdidnotthen 

 occur to me that it was Danisn. 437, 

 Saohoiswan, puzzles both Dr. Eegel and 

 Mr. Albert Eegel. The name seems un- 

 known to them, and the Doctor can only 

 suggest that it might be intended for 

 Sacharnoe, Sacharine, or perhaps Zakor- 

 itnoe. The apple must have a name, so I 

 have retained the name Saxonian. 551, 

 Arbuzovskoe I have left as Watermelon, 

 even though it is named after Mr. Arbu- 

 zoff, Mr. Watermelon. 565, Yorgunok, 

 must not be. confused with Yargulek or 

 Vorgulek. 584, 1 have used Erdbeer in- 

 stead of Strawberry as we have so many 

 strawberry apples. 599, Eomnenskoe or 

 Eomenskoe? Eegelin his pomology gives 

 the former, as coming from Eomna, near 

 Moscow; but in his catalogues of late 

 years, he gives Eomenskoe, as though 

 from the town of Eomensk. Mr. Schroe- 

 der, of Moscow, in his Plodovui Sad, in 

 1886, adheres to Eomnenskoe. Mr. Albert 

 Eegel says he does not know, but says 

 that Eomna is not a fruit growing region, 

 and Eomensk is; leaving the chances in 

 favor of the latter. I mention this to 

 show that accuracy is not always possible. 



