MOSCOW. 
requiring such different culture, situation, and 
temperature, could be thus nourished beneath 
the same roof. He said that the principal 
fault among gardeners consisted in their mode 
of watering; that, for his part, he performed 
almost all the work with his own hands; 
acknowledging, that, although botanists were 
much surprised by the appearance of lus plants, 
he was himself indebted, for all the knowledge 
he had acquired, to our countryman Miller, 
whose works were always near him. In his 
garden, the plants of Siberia flourished in the 
open air. The Spircca crenata, and the Rosa 
Justriaca, or Persian Rose, were in full bloom on 
the twenty-fifth of May. Almost all the fruit- 
trees in Moscow had perished during the former 
winter. The Count smiled when we spoke of 
the facility with which he might obtain the 
Siberian plants. “ I receive them all,” said he, 
“ from England: nobody here will be at the 
trouble to collect either seed or plants ; and I 
am compelled to send to your country for things 
that grow wild in my own.'’ 
In addition to the extraordinary collection 
already noticed, belonging to this nobleman, 
we were shewn another set of apartments filled 
with all sorts of philosophical instruments. This 
collection alone appeared sufficient to have em- 
