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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Janvary 19, 1895, 
and most familiar river-bank flora. Bulrushes, 
Reeds, and Water Plantain, backed by Willows, 
Birches, Alder, Spruce, and Pine, were succeeded 
tangled over with the tufted Vetch—and by 
evening we were at Archangel. 
It is not my present intention to speak of the 
e 
ve made practically into 
ish soil; nor of the wild plants of the neighbour- 
ing swamps and shores, many of which sre interest- 
ing from having been noticed by Tradescant—but of 
what there was of cultivation, As we rattled in our 
droshkis over the cobble-sto 22 Bod its . 
898 us as a he 
nted white, — the n roots 
of the br. conceal their solid internal construc- 
tion and all those of any importance have a court- 
stride, These trees, are mostly Birch, with some 
Mountain Ash, Bird-cherry and Spruce; but more 
orticultarist were the flowering- 
Few things strike a Londoner more, throughout 
northern oe than the universal presence of well- 
g plants in dwelling-rooms, In t 
studio of Se 80 photographer, and even in 
monks’ of monasteries farther north th 
Are * e Crotons, eb sors Rag 
niuma, Coleus, or Fuchsias, occur i 
room. The double windows, so nt 
keep out cold, now have the draught-tight apace 
between them filled with such mvi as 2 
he 
the 
w 
E 
P 
and it does not seem necessary a Russ 
to open them for air, even a their chee 
hot summer, _ As many of my friends were obviously 
of the ¢ limate of Archangel, | 
entirely ` 
and it telle one but little to 
be wondered at, 
Mi ee Le for about twenty-two 
ra out o ele ir, that its Joly average 
is 60° Fahr. coal 
With nine months winter we hardly expect much 
open-air gardening ; he judging from several fine 
large Palma by e when the English 
Polar Expedition entertained Governor and 
local officials at luncheon; there must be some large 
glass- The public ng are not vey 
merely a square enclosur arge 
uares, with alte avenues Gè 
for size, unk 
Vologia ee both these cities 
signs of departed grandeur Tole Woes ete c 
pert gash Mend a eo 
ot the 
RA oap apan], 
tensive kitch 
flower-gardens and aatan eg pena 
s 
y varied and large- eee 
specimens of Viola 
septemtrionale 
— going off; whilet I do not think 
+1 + weed mora 
UUL 
Ih 
ornamentali developed. eager in Siad, its white 
umbels orne on numerous stems nearly 3 feet 
high over cs familiar carpet of bright green foliage. 
Among vegetables eaten here, Potatos are, as I 
have said, small and poor, fone rete and coarse, 
pole a and Lettuces good, Mushrooms much used 
na very young stage. Small kalts, both wild and 
daiat, are somewhat numerous, In addition to 
Raspberries and Currants, there are in the market an 
abundance of Whortleberries and Cranberries; but 
the most delicious preserve of the country is made 
from the Cloudberry (Rubus Chamæmorus), some- 
times called the Yellow Cranberry, and perhaps better 
known to many Englishmen as the möltebeere of 
Norway than as the avron of Scotland, It was the 
on most moist, heathy ground, 
radescant accurately describes it mi pe aR the 
trawberry, but with leaves in some meas 
the avens, g> as having an amber fruit, which was 
sed as a remedy against the scurvy, e drie 
some of the prom and afterwards sent some of the 
to Robin of Paris, 
this maroschka,” as it is called, in a peasant’s 
h on my second evening in Russia, In flavour, 
as in colour, it „ apricot. The an- 
vodka” (corn- spirit), and 
e a somewhat bitter red-colonred liqueur, 
known as“ Rubiniys, and I was informed that the 
-cherry was similarly employed. I must not 
forget the little Russian Cucumbers, which were 
hardly ever T from the menu. G. S, Boulger, 
18, Ladbroke Grove, W, 
(To be continued). 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
ko au BARRISL, eus rx un 
Tuts very fragile, 
belongs s se A. viride grou 
ever, it is ¢ i 
aur but chiefly by iti 
x 
pilies. of he A. Trichomanes group, but also from 
the nearer Andean allies, 
as in A. rhizophorum, G. S. Jen 
8 man, Demerara, 
2 ANCEPS, “ ROSEFIELD VaR.,” n. var, 
t beautiful s richly. coloured var 
iety, 
the — striking fea in which are the Broad, 
; and the well-define 
4 ip, up the c the centre of which 
eels, The opes and 
ae bright n with a clea r white 
at the base of each, The variety is good in 
Splenium Harrisi (E 
ti f cor > uasplenium, 
ark scales; stipites tufted 
— long, often fle 
-erect 
-3p.— Rootstock 
with minute 
cut away, the mi : 
flabel.ate » Open, — a a 
at, eventually raj 
7000 feet eleva: ane 
kate tae ra, a cle and communicated by M Mr. Wm, 
re like 
an, thin little 1 
hie 
— 
form, very remarkable in colour, but in size equi 
only to good ordinary variety. It flowered With 
De Barri ee Esq., at Rosefield, Sevenoaks, 
James O'B 
LÆLIA ANCEPS CRAWSHAYANA, n. var, | 
Two superb varieties of Lælia anceps have flowers i 
in the collection of De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Row 
field, Sevenoaks, out of a selection of planta acquired 
from the Liverpool Horticultural woe from nau 
d 
by 14 inch wide. 
clear purplish- rose. The broad labellum is of a righ 
crimeon-purple, on the front lobe, and edges of th 
side lobes, The keels running from the base ofti 
lip are yellow, and the insides of the side loba 
folded over the column, streaked with dark purl 
lines. James O'Brien. [See Royal Horticulton! 
Society’s Report in present issue, p. 81] 
VANDA KIMBALLIANA, ö 
Our illustration (fig. 10, p. 69) of a group um 
of several fine specimens of Vanda Kimballiam i 
e 
with the allied V. Amesiana, by 
o. from the hills in the Southern Shan 
of Tadia a few years ago, and since that time t 
plant has been got over in quantity by several oth 
firms. At first the plants were subjected to tie 
highest temperature found in Orchid-houses, si 
many were not successful in cultivating chem en 
factorily, L 
was 
in the coldest house, Where this was literally int 
preted, the result was no more ont tot 
where the plants had been subjected to great 
but with those whose cool-house was kept a 1 . 
temperature, the results were satisfactory: Mj! 
Mason, whose plants have been in admi i 
tion from the first, seems to have adopted tho milit ; 
course, and. which is fe amd the proper one, 0 
his plants he says, “We a “| l 
end of a warm house, in bosko suspended va 
lass of the roof. They grow in sphagnu 1 
erocke, and certainly thrive in a marvellous 2 W 
The p were in the fe 1 E 
groupe 
purpose of photographing them.” 
ORCHID NOTES AND G LEANINGS l 
CALANTHES, &c., AT AERO weal) | 
HO 
wi 
A tarar quantity of plants “a Calanthe vestita 1 
C. Xx Veitchii have been remarkably well or 4% 
able time past, and is at its best at the pal i 3 
The entire side of the house is occup pied OY 
Calanthes, with a few other plants to afford 
and a very effective T is thus made. 
idea of the strength of t e flower-spikes wo count ’ 
obtained when we state — one which ves“ 
bore thirty- seven blooms. in 
chiefly for cutting | 
d esp 1 
ispum, O. Cervantesii, and 
