The Herbarium of the Royal Museum, Sophia, Bulgaria 

 A. McKea 



King Boris, enthusiastically follows in his father's, King 

 Alexander's, footsteps. Hs is an eminent naturalist, and he is 

 also interested in botany; so much so that he has recently had 

 built a beautiful new wing to the museum in which to house the 

 Royal Herbarium. He sent Professor Stoyanoff to Kew Gardens 

 for four years that he might be able to arrange the Herbarium and 

 classify the specimens by the English method. 



The work of collecting is enthusiastically carried on by the 

 King. He is often away on excursions in all parts of the King- 

 dom but he is particularly interested in the plants that grow at 

 high altitudes in his own beautiful Balkans, and also in Thrace 

 and Macedonia. 



Professor Stoyanoff who is in charge of the 

 Sectio Botanico 

 Museo Naturalis 

 Suae Majestatis Bulgarium 

 Sophae 

 is also a member of the Faculty of Agriculture of the Sophia 

 University. He speaks EngHsh perfectly, and courteously and 

 with pride, showed some of the plants gathered at high alti- 

 tudes by the King, notably several unusual species of TrifoHum, 

 Cypridium Calceolaris and many varities of the polymorphic 

 Orchis Morio. The white form and an unusual reddish purple, 

 and several nana forms, and a special one from Thrace with few 

 flowers, which resembles, but is not Picta. Also an 0. Morio 

 from Sarnac, of the Sredna Gora, 0. Morio from near Sophia 

 with very slender leaves and few flowers, and 0. Morio from the 

 high mountains of Custindil. 



Regarding the perfume rose of Kasanlik. There are two 

 varieties under cultivation there. Rosa Damasena and Rosa 

 alba. There are several different kinds of soil and the fields of 

 roses seem to thrive equally well in all. Professor Stoyanoff 

 thinks the climate much more important than the soil. The 

 flowers are very small. These great fields of roses bloom in May 

 and in the first week in June. The perfume factory is quiescent 

 in the winter. 



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