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SEPTEMBER 
THE GARDENERS’ 
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which I hava never known to be granted in the best 
ept, perhaps, bees — hot-houses and 
early forcing werezmuch greater than usual, and the 
ill 
fuel bill high ; aad? ‘enquiry wil, 1 feel sure, prove as j which has been forwarded to the Royal 
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which at present centres in this part of the Arctic 
P ry the results, especially 
the ice, are of much importance. 
Fio. 51.—DISA KEWENSIS X : COLOUR ROSY-CRIMSON, PURPLE SPOTTED, 
FROM THE EOYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
that the members of 
course was for Nameless 
of Novaya Zemlya. The ice conditions in Barents Sea 
were found to be extremely unfavo : 
trable pack was met with about 80 miles from the 
west coast of Novaya Zemlya, trending towards th 
north-west, and several days were spent in cruis- 
ing along the edge of the «s ice to the south- 
east. Every likely bight in the pack was entered, 
indentations were followed 
for 20 to 30 — * artery heavy polar ice 
barred the way, and the yac 
water. Cual running үн — vessel bore up for 
Varéó to refill. The members of the expedition 
were landed on the Murman t of Russian Lap- 
land, near Sviatoi x e they into camp. 
k was spent there profitably in ornithological, 
botanical, and ical ti the 
return of the N {то 
he pack was 
again met in in about the sume meridian as 
open abou 
. а — 1 pack of 8 to 10 
miles in width was jammed against the shore, and 
this formed a connection with the main pack off North 
and South Goose Capes; in fact, nosan aana 
water-hole. An attempt was made to press the 
yacht towards North Goose Cape, in the hope of 
being found in the direction of Möller 
Bay, poe resulted in the little vessel being nearly. 
beset in the pack ; but "rige A the large pool of 
open ni off Goose regain The 
wind now shifted to the алт ient tis the lead by 
which yacht had entered closed entirely. The 
e up from th 
Island, ud hour by hour the water-pool stc 
Again "eol had begun to run short, when, fortun 
а gocd lead opened to the south-west; а run — 
made for it, and, after passing TER 2 miles of 
dense pack on either mais open water was reached, 
the members of the expedition went into camp near 
the mouth of the Kriva river, on the 
of Savon 7 
south-west side 
Vardó and 
Bay, the final 3 being at the head of 
Bi Bay, near South r 
usha 
Samoyed settlement in that locality was visited. А 
considerable river which enters the north-east of 
Bielusha Bay, was explored. The Saxon returned 
to Vardó on July 30, and to England on August 12, 
after an гой e and adventurous voyage. Times, 
the fact that — farum here 
amp 
e plant is most floriferous, an flowers 
аге bright rosy-crimson, with small pu 
the galea ; and also, especially in ыга cornet flower, 
often similar spotting on the other sepals. 
