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produced by plantations of our dull barked Birches. What an 

 attraction to our Mount Royal park such a grove would be. It 

 would become the haunt of our snow-shoe clubs by moon-light, 

 in summer the resort of pic-nic parties and pleasure seekers. How 

 beautiful our Montreal park could be made by the judicious plant- 

 ing of trees of varied form and foliage, 



B. Dahurica, we saw at St. Petersburg an oldish, slow- 

 growing, rough barked tree. Costala, too, usually noted as from 

 the Amur. Much like our canoe Birch in bark and leaf, but has 

 a slow growing, stunted look. 



OALYOANTHUS. 



Some Northern forms, C. Siberica, seems quite hardy at the 

 Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg. Flowers whitish yellow. 



- OARAGANA. 



The most widely popular of the Russian shrubs is unknown, 

 I may say, in Canada. In Western Europe we scarcely notice the 

 Caraganas, except in the Botanic Gardens. In central Europe 

 they become much more generally planted ; even in mild climates 

 like Prague, we find them common in the city gardens. It is a 

 plant capable of enduring great extremes of cold and drought ; 

 the best shrub for planting on the confines of the cold desert, and 

 therefore widely popular in the cold, dry North. 



On the Finland road, that suburb v, !:iich is the resort of the 

 townspeople of St. Petersburg during their short cool summers, 

 the Caragana is the common hedge plant. It and the red berried 

 Elder the commonest shrubs. In the tea gardens of the 

 Petrovskoe pari near Moscow, where the Russians met to enjoy 

 theii' tea around their hissing samovars, the dividing screens are 

 Caragana. At Moscow and Kazan, it and the Siberian thorn are 

 the common hedge plants. 



This arborescent Caragana is known also as the Siberian Pea tree 

 and in France sometimes called acacia de Siberie. It is a shrub 



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