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SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1895. 
GARDENIN 3 IN NORTHERN 
USSIA, 
HEN we je the Arctic Circle, and 
approach Russia from its northernmost 
European port, we can hardly expect to see 
much of horticultural interest, To any one, 
however, interested as I am in the history of our 
English gardens, the voyage round the coast of 
Norway to Archangel, and the brief sojourn 
there, which 1 had the advantage of making last 
added enjoyment of association, Eor it was by 
this route that John Tradescant e Elder, the 
first botanist to visit e sailed n 1618 
each Archangel; whilst in the 
Windward in 1894, though we had contrary 
winds, we accomplished the whole distance in 
nineteen days. Tradescant acoordingl 
Archangel from July 16 to August 5 (Old Style), 
whilst my stay in the 8 occupied the first 
half of August. He, however, seems to have 
sailed round the North Cape, whilst we Kit in- 
side the fiords, within a short distance of the 
shore, from Christiansund to Honnings Vaag on 
Mager O6 
We made but little close acquaintance with 
Norwegian gardens; but were struck by the 
spring-like verdure of the scanty: pasturage, and 
the height to which vegetation of some 
sort extended up the granitic mountains of the 
coast-line. In places where a foregound of long 
bents and ling were all we could distinguish from 
the deck, close-growing Juniper on the lower 
slopes passed into straight-growing, well-thinned 
groves of Pine at higher levels, relieved by 
occasional silver Birches. As we approached 
Tromsoé we saw many good crops of hay being 
harvested or drying on lines, and some consider- 
able patches of Barley and Potatos, The latter 
were in full flower, 2 though green and 
l a 
poverty ue 
which certainly was — “of ‘Northern 
bourhood of 
a distant view of the ae eros 
‘hi 31st, the woods of f Fir Ry Birch od es 
À disti shores of the ‘wide mouth of the Pein i 
came in sight. Then, as we entered arrower 
re, we were soon tantalised by an abundant 
