“5792. on the climate of Rufsia. 255 
“On THE CLIMATE OF Russia in THE NerGHBOURHOOD oF ST | 
PETERSBURGH. 
My very ingenious and obliging correspondent, Arcri- 
cus, in answer to the queries [Bee, vol. ix. p. 157. note,] 
respecting the trees in Rufsia around St Peterfburgh, has 
favoured me with the following interesting memorandums 
on that subject, along with many other particulars res. 
pecting that country ; and, in particular, an exact list‘ of 
all the birds, migratory and stationary, that are found in 
that country, which will appear in due time in this Mis- 
cellany 
“The trees and birds, {says he,) when accurately siven, 
especially those which are natives, or stand the climate 
the whole year round in open air, is no bad mode of 
judging and comparing climates. In that persuasion, 
I thall here answer your queries made at the bottom of my 
Jetter on planting, which I suspect are suggested by the 
same idea. 
“ st, Fraxinus, the hie I never saw in the woods here ; 
although Pallas thinks the few afh trees he has in his 
garden were probably found in the woods, but never saw 
the tree there himself; it may therefore be regarded as 
an exotic. It would make a curious scale of compara- 
| tive perfection, to trace the afh from a country where it is 
an exotic, and only found in gardens, to a climate where 
jt affords manna. 
“ 2d, Ulmus, or elm. This tree, like the ath, is only found 
in gardens. 
“ 2d, Fagus, or beech, is a hothouse plant in this coun- 
try, and only seen in tubs at the imperial sala and gardens 
of Sarcocello. 
