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VALLEY OF TCHORGONA. 
chap. Hablitz first observed it upon the spot whence 
> , » we derived our specimens, and he sent the 
seed to Pallas in Petersburg. The plant is 
however still uncommonly rare. As a perennial, 
it may be sown in common garden soil in the 
open air; and it increases annually in size, 
until it becomes a fine tall shrub of very great 
beauty. We afterwards brought it to the 
Botanic Garden in Cambridge; where it also 
succeeded, but it has never equalled the size it 
attains in Russia. In the Crimea the blossom is 
larger, and the flowers are more abundant, than 
upon the English specimens. 
From Tchorgona we returned again to Shidu, 
and from thence to Kara Ilaes, where we passed 
the night in the palace of a Tahlar nobleman, 
upon the sort of sofa called divan, which always 
surrounds the principal apartment of a Tahtarian 
or Turkish palace. Here we were covered 
by bugs and by fleas of the most enormous 
size; they came upon us like ants from an 
ant-hill. The next day we drove pleasantly 
Return to to Ahmetchet, and once more shared the com- 
Ahmetchet. G f q ie Professor’s hospitable mansion; 
regretting only the fever with which he was 
afflicted in consequence of an excursion, other- 
wise considered by us the most agreeable we 
had ever made. 
