Show A russian hot liot house housa bayard taylor thus describes the magnificent greenhouse green house which the czar maintains for the production a and na growth of tropical and other exotic plants amid the snows of russia the botanical garden in which I 1 spent an aftem afternoon oon contains one of the finest collections of tropical plants in europe here in latitude 60 deg you may walk through an avenue of palm trees sixty feet high under tree ferns and bananas b ananas by ponds of lotus and indian lily and nd banks of splendid flowers breathing an air heavy with the richest and warmest odors the extent of the giant hot houses cannot be less than a mile and a half the short summer and the long dark winter of the north requires a peculiar course of treatment for these children of the sun ban during the three warm months they are forced as much as possible so that the growth of six months is obtained in that time and the productive qualities of the plant are kept up to their normal standard after this result is obtained it thrives as steadily as in a more favorable climate the palm a phoenix nix I 1 believe is now in blossom which is an unheard of event ui gacha guch a latitude |