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THE BOROVITSKY A P PL E
Borovitsky Apple. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p . 110.
So few of the early summer Apples which are
commonly cultivated possess any merit, th a t it is
very desirable to substitute some new kinds. The
Sugar Loaf Pippin has already been figured in this
work; and the present, also of Russian origin, has
been found worthy of a second place. I t was sent
to the Horticultural Society from the Taurida
Gardens near St. Petersburgh, by Mr. Martin Miller
Call, in 1824 : it ripens in the middle of August, and
keeps well for about three weeks.
Wood flexuose, dull grayish-brown purple,
slightly downy, and marked sparingly with cinereous
specks.
Leaves large, ovate oblong, of rather a thin
substance, doubly and acutely crenated, shining
above, and slightly pubescent b e n e a th ; petioles
long, and deeply tinged with purplish red ; stipules
smooth, linear-lanceolate.
F ruit middle-sized, roundish, and rather angula
r ; eye seated in rather a large cavity, and surrounded
by a few small plaits. S talk about an
inch long, inserted in a deep and rather wide cavity.