. Fruits for the cold north [microform] : report on Russian fruits : by Charles Gibb, Abbotsford, Quebec : with notes on Russian apples imported in 1870 by Department of Agriculture. Fruit; Apples; Fruits; Pomme. 16 they consider it their most profitable winter apple. As a late keeping apple for home use they much prefer it to any other. The fruit ia large, and in form, size, and striping, much like our St. Lawrence. The flesh, when tasted on 21st Sept., was whitish, firm, juicy, crude, unripe, rather fine grained, a mixture of sweet and crude sharp acid. As a long keeping apple of tine q
. Fruits for the cold north [microform] : report on Russian fruits : by Charles Gibb, Abbotsford, Quebec : with notes on Russian apples imported in 1870 by Department of Agriculture. Fruit; Apples; Fruits; Pomme. 16 they consider it their most profitable winter apple. As a late keeping apple for home use they much prefer it to any other. The fruit ia large, and in form, size, and striping, much like our St. Lawrence. The flesh, when tasted on 21st Sept., was whitish, firm, juicy, crude, unripe, rather fine grained, a mixture of sweet and crude sharp acid. As a long keeping apple of tine quality, I have every hope of this being a very valuable BOODANOFP. A good, late keeping apple would be a perfect God-send to our Province and its like climates. BogdanofF is a most promising variety, well-worthy of its name, which means God-given. Bohemian Girl (Tatganka, Zuiganka).—We saw this beautiful apple in the Voro- nesh market, a medium-sized semi-oblate fruit, blushed all over with deep pink. The flesh is white, but quite past season when we tasted it. It is a great beauty, and Mr. Fis- cher says a hardy tree. A summer apple well-worthy of trial. Borovinka (Borovitski) must be looked upon as a family name. It was a member of this family that, long "age, migrated to this country and became known everywhere as the Duchess of Oldenburg. This apple we did not see in Russia. At Tenki, in the Government of Kazan, in a peasant orchard, we saw trees in full bearing of a fruit which both Mr. Budd and I looking carefully at it thought to be Duchess; but on tasting it we found it so fine in grain and so mildly acid, that we felt that no such difference in texture and flavour could result from change of soil and climate. At Prince Gagarine's, Borovinka, perhaps this one, is looked upon as one of the varities long known, not like Arabka and Antonovka introduced of late years. In another village near there we found another apple just like Duchess but sweet, or to sa
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