Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-05-30
THE "FROST FLOWER OF RUSSIA PRO
DUCED IN BOSTON.


A Boston journal describes an extraor-
dinary "frost flower" of Russia which has
been produced, it is said, in Boston, in
temperature of artificial cold, in the fol-
lowing words: This wonderful plant,
or rather flower, is found only on the nor
thern boundaries of Siberia, where the
snow is eternal 1t was discovered in
1868 by Count Swinoskof, the eminent
Russian botanist, who was ennobled by the
Gear for his discovery. Bursting from
the frozen snow on the first day of the
year, it grows to the hight of three feet
and flowers on the third day, remains in
flower for twenty.four hours and then
dissolves itself into its original element
stem, leaves and flowers being of the
finest snow. The stalk is about one inch
in diameter; the leaves, three in num-
ber. in the broadest part are an inch and
half in width, and are covered with in
. finitessimal cones of snow they grow
y only on one side of the stalk, to the north
curving gracefully in the same direction
i, The flower when fully expanded is ii
shape of a perfect star; the petals arr
three inches in length, half an inch wide
in the broadest parts, and tapering sharp
! ly to point. These are also interlacec
:. me with another, in beautiful manner
u forming the most delicate basket of frost
., work tnat the eye ever beheld; for truly
this is frostwork the lcost wonderful. Ih
!, |, authors are five in number, aud on tn
= - third day after the birth of the "t'ower 0
y = snow" are too be seen on the extremilie
: !. thereof, trembling and glittering like dla
- J. monds, the seeds Of this wonderful flower
" about as large as pins head,
= The old botanist says when first he be
- - held this flower, II was struck dumb wit
ss % astonisbment; filled with woudermen
- which gave way to joy the most ecstatl
=. on beholding this wonderful work of nj
~ ~ ture this remarkable phenomenon of sno
~ TO see this flower springing from ii
''0 snowy desert---born of its own compost
atoms. | touched the stem of one light
but it fell at my touch, and and mors
ST. of snow only remained in my hand"
'ut Gathering some of the flowers In seed
he hied TO st. Petersburg with, to hll
ng the greatest prize Of his lifetime. A
lat through the year they were in snow al
on the first day Of the year following t
sa' Court of st. Petersburg were delight
Ihe the bursting forth of the wonderful "fr'
It. flower !" ..t 1e H"H q.
" Our friends in Boston succeeded in Q
SO tanning several of. the seeds, and oil tn
ex- the summer and autumn they have be
you imbedded in snow brought at great expe'
nat from the White Mountains and the co
nat of Labrador and they now have the m
unbounded satisfaction and pleasure in
lus, nouncing that all signs are favorable
DOW the realization of their fondest hopes,
am production of the "snow flower" O
;. The snow is in large glass refrigt
ing tor with the thermometer forty-hve
er grees below zero, and the solid bed OF 81
;, has already begun to show little fssl
&C. and slight bullying in the centre :
. mistakable evidence of the forthcomin
IT, the phenomenon. RI 5s 7ei Hte4af
." ... ...#r d. .#.s q. ..- 81