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Going to Trysil, 150 miles northeast of Oslo, there was another 
drop in temperature. Endless forests, chiefly of spruce, character- 
ize this region; the birch trees were yellow, standing out brightly 
among the evergreens. Many people were busy making ditches, an 
operation required by the state whenever forest lands change 
ownership. 
I stopped over night in the Swedish border village of Charlotten- 
berg, so as to travel across Sweden by day. Here the compara- 
tively level landscapes, with more numerous farms and _ villages, 
form a contrast with mountainous Norway. 
Stockholm is beautifully situated on waters of the Malaren, 
branching bays of the Baltic. The botanic garden, formerly called 
Bergiansk Tradgard, now Bergielund, is a short distance to the 
north. It is about half the size of the Brooklyn Garden, with a 
picturesque situation by a lake. Dr. Fries, whom I had met in 
Ikngland, took me about the garden. Most conspicuous among 
the flowering plants at this time was the yellow climber, Tropae- 
olum peregrinum, There were many American goldenrods, but 
they had an unfamiliar appearance and it was difficult to recognize 
the species. Whether the difference in appearance is due chiefly 
to the different climate or in part to the greater length of day in 
this northern latitude, I do not know. The rock garden consists 
of three large piles of granite rocks, representing America, Scandi- 
navia, the Alps and Asia. 
ne Natural History Museum of Zoology and Geology is a 
large building not far away; by it is the separate botany building, 
including a large herbarium and museum in charge of Dr. Samuel- 
son. Dr. Asplund took me about the herbarium, especially rich 
in South American material. I was particularly interested in see- 
ing the original specimens of Frankenia Clarenii Fries. 
Some distance north of the botanic garden, at Berghamra, are 
about a hundred “ colony-gardens ” with small summer houses 
similar to those I saw near Oslo. Here the land is rented by a 
a 
special society. 
A night steamer took me over the Baltic to Abo or Turku, Fin- 
land, passing the Aland Islands and innumerable small forest- 
covered islands nearer the Finnish mainland. I then took a train 
across the country to Helsingfors. It 1s nearly level, with ex- 
tensive grasslands and forests. Ditches, twenty or thirty feet 
