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wild, but the northern limit of campestis is yet further south. 

 Ejfusa is a good and a hardy tree but I never saw one of large 

 size. At Petrovskoe, Moscow, Mr. Shroeder showed us a fine spe- 

 cimen of effusa petidula, so my notes say, but I have forgotten it. 

 Montana, or the so-called Scotch elni, is not so hardy there or at 

 St. Petersburg. Some weeping forms of it of the Camperdown 

 type, seemed quite hardy at Riga, and were very graceful and 

 ornamental. Their pendula should rather be named horizontalis. 

 They have a fine specimen in one of their public gardens, eight 

 inches or more in diameter of trunk. Another is quite pendulous. 

 We are much in need of a tree of this kind a little hardier 

 than camperdown. U. montana exoniensis is very erect in growth, 

 has large curled leaves clinging around the stem — both odd and 

 ornamental. U. m. Damierii is much like it, but said by Mr. 

 Wagner to be less hardy. Adantifolia is like the urticaefolia of 

 the American nurseries, but even more crinkled, and its recurved 

 serrations are very curious. The U. suborosa {?) of Turkestan, is a 

 small leaved variety, not hardy at Moscow. 



Under the name of Siberica are several varieties unlike one 

 another, and quite unlike that described by me last year. 



Notes on Evergreens, I regret I am unable now to prepare. 



In conclusion, I would say that I have written these notes 

 when pressed with other work, but felt it was necessary that they 

 may appear at once, that whatever is of value to us, should be 

 imported this coming autumn ; for orders of plants from points 

 North and East of Warsaw must be shipped in the fall. 



Seeds can be sent from or to Russia in bags under 8 oz. 

 Scions I have sent safely to Warsaw by mail ; and scions sent by 

 mail from Riga arrived in fair condition. Letters to Central and 

 Eastern Russia (Moscow excepted) should be addressed in 

 Russian. 



As an amateur, I cannot continue to give up to this work the 

 time I have given in the past. My part has been an endeavour to 

 show our Governments and our Horticultural Societies what may, 

 what should be done. 



