HASTY NOTES ON TREES AND SHRUBS OF 

 NORTHERN EUROPE AND ASIA. 



BY CHARLES GIBB, ABBOTTSFORD, QUE. 



The experience of the Russian Horticulturists is just like our 

 own. They have searched Central and Western Europe for new 

 species, and have found among the many tried a few hardy and 

 valuable. They have searched for new species on this Continent, 

 and in some instances, like ourselves, have received the Southern 

 forms of hardy species. Have you the Ash-leaved Maple ? I ask 

 Dr. Regel, the Director of the Botanic Gardens at St. Petersburg. 

 Yes, but it is not hardy here. It is the only street tree in Winni- 

 peg, I replied. Then I have some Southern form, he said. Yes, 

 such is his experience and ours, and such must continue to be 

 our disappointing experience until we establish direct communica- 

 tion with our like climates in the old world. The Russian 

 Botanists had tried to find us years ago. They had endeavored 

 to get into correspondence with the Botanists of the colder parts 

 of Canada through their Consul at New York. They failed in 

 this, but turned their attention to the cold climates eastward to 

 the Pacific. 



In the Imperial Botanic Gardens at St. Petersburg, we find the 

 flora of the cold inter-continental climates of Eastern Russia, 

 Siberia, Northern Turkestan, Soongaria, Mongolia, Mantchuria, 

 and Amur, our own like climates in the Old World. 



Europe may well be proud of her Botanic Gardens. The 

 large outlay of the European Governments seems to have been 

 money well invested. Botany in its relation to Agriculture, Horti- 

 culture and Forestry is a science deemed too valuable to be suf- 

 fered to remain untaught. K -oia is in no way behind in this 

 matter. At St. Petersburg what cannot be grown out of doors 

 must be grown within, thence they have there the largest number 



