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A. Tartaricum. Tartarian Maple.— Th\3 tres is a native 

 near Moscow, and may be seen in the Botanic Gardens and parks 

 in the severest climates w-e visited. It is an " entire-leaved " 

 Maple, grows into a large bush, and is decidedly ornamental. It 

 is a pity that the trees of it for sale in the States are not to be 

 relyed upon for hardiness. We must get Northern stock. 



Var. GiNNALA {iegmeniosum of some catalogues.) — A very 

 pretty shrub Maple from Amur, noted as quite hardy at St. Peters- 

 burg, though only fairly hardy at Riga. My Moscow notes do 

 not mention it. Hardy enough for Montreal, I should expect. 



-fflSOULUS AND PAVIA— Horse Chestnut. 



As we wandered from place to place we found decided variety 

 in foliage of this tree. Mr. Budd used to note the thickness of 

 leaf of the trees in some districts, as likely to stand the dry air of 

 the Iowa prairies. The best collection we saw was in the Botanic 

 Garden at Munich. Here special attention had been given to 

 making a large collection. Specimen trees at St. Petersburg, 

 Moscow, and Volsk looked as if out of their latitude. One thing, 

 however, we observed, and that is the hardness of the Pavias or 

 smooth-fruited Horse Chestnuts, and these Pavias, we were told in 

 several places, were European, not American. 



ALNUS-Alder. 



There are some beautiful shrubs among the Alder. Imperialis 

 is said to be the least hardy, and yet I would expect it to thrive 

 in a sheltered city garden in Montreal. Incana laciniafi has a 

 dull, sombre tint, very unusual ; leaves deeply cut, and vcy orna- 

 mental. It seemed, and was said to be, quite hardy in the 

 nurseries at Riga. Incana pimiatifida or acuminata in the Botanic 

 Garden, St. Petersburg, is a large bush 25 feet in height, with a 

 trunk 1 2 inches in diameter ; foliage dull in color and deeply cut. 

 From my notes it must be very like Laciniata. A. glutinosa 

 oxyacanthafolia is well named, and, like those above, bears no 



