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SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



Anisim. — Origin, Russia; tree a strong grower in nursery and 

 orchard; tlie beautiful color of the fruit attracts favorable attention. 



Fruit below medium, roundish conical, slightly angular; surface 

 greenish yellow, covered almost wholly with a beautiful dark crimson, 

 with heavy blue bloom; dots white, minute; cavity regular, acute, 

 usually slighth" russet ed; stem medium; basin narrow, very shallow, 

 corrugated, sometimes flat; calyx closed. Core closed, clasping; 

 tube short, broad; stamens median; flesh greenish white, with green 

 veins, good. Earh' winter. 



Antonovka. — Origin, Russia; the leading commercial apple of 

 southern Russia. Fruit desirable but tree blights in some localities. 



Antonovka. 



Fruit large, roundish, irregular, obscurely angular; surface 

 yellow; dots minute, raised, white, suffused; cavity deep, rec:ular 

 with radiating often large patch of russet ; stem medium ; basin al inijit , 

 corrugated, or wavy; calyx closed. Core closed; cells ovate, slit; tube 

 funnel-shaped; stamens median; seeds numerous, small, ]iointed, 

 plump; flesh }'ellow, juicy, sprightly, spicy, subacid, good. October. 



