NOTES FROM THE JOURNAL OF A BOTANIST IN © 
EUROPE. 
BY W. G. FARLOW, M.D. 
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PART Il. NORWAY, ETC. 
I LANDED at Christiania upon a high holiday, one rather striking 
to a pilgrim from the new world. The people were celebrating 
the two thousandth birth-day of Norway! I found Professor 
Schiibeler at home; and the next day he showed me through t 
Botanic Garden and the University. Although the Garden is 
poor enough compared with that of Lund, yet it is good consid- 
ering the latitude, and the conservatories appeared to be as large 
and as well filled as those at Cambridge. The university buildings 
are well situated, and I should think more extensive than those at 
Cambridge. The Professor is a man of boundless energy, and is 
making the most of narrow means and a poor climate. He gav 
me a list, by no means a long one, of all the American tree 
the garden. It would be an easy and excellent thing for 
American correspondent to double and triple their number. + 
and cones are desired rather than young plants, for obvio 
reasons. There is the same confusion in-the north of Europe 
our two spruces as that which prevails, or till lately prevail é 
the nurseries and plantations at home. The plantation of a 
alba” which Professor Agardh showed me at Lund was most 
fruit, and every tree of it A. nigra; while here, Prof. Schü 
only tree of “ Abies nigra,” ‘also in fruit, proved to be Abies 
The herbarium here is of no special consequence. 
= What most interested me, besides a few alge given me 
os Lyngbye’s collection, valuable as souvenirs, was a museum of 
A economical products of Norway, especially the grains, 
_ prepared by the present Professor; and a very interesting 
ade by him of the arable lands of Norway. The cu 
: ds appeared as mere lines, almost as narrow as the 
ae a map. As I subsequently found, fully nine-tenths of the 
- Bon of steep rocky mountains, and only the banks of t 
e. The perseverance of the people is wonderful 
t at all lev w is EN cultivated. Tracts of half 
