A VERY WONDERFUL FLOWER.

Manawatu Herald, 20 December 1889, Page 4

A VERY WONDERFUL FLOWER.

» A French pape.r, Les Mondes gives a* fascinating account of a newly discovered flower, of which rumours have from time to time reached the ears of . floriculturists. It is called the snow flower, and is said to have been discovered by Count Anthoskofl in the moßt northern portion of Siberia, where k the ground is continually covered with frost. s Ttfi.9 [■wonderful object shoots forth from A the frozen soil only o&>the first .day of each succeeding year. - It shines for but a single day, and then resolves to its original elements. The leaves are three in number, and each about three inches in diameter. They are developed only on that side of the stem towards the north, and each seenfif cbvered// with "miacrosoopic chrystals-bf snowy The flower when it opens, is star shaped, its petals of the same length as the leaves, and abou^h.alf on inch in width. On tW tbirfl day tke extremities of the anthers, which are five in number, show minute glistening specks like diamonds, about the the size of a pinarhead, which nve the sends of this : < wpn<^rful- flow*efV Antbpskofi colledo^ BOniQ Qf- these, seeds and carried them with him to St Petersburg, They yrere placed in a pot of snow,, where they remained . for sojjae >. ifcijne t On the Ist of the following January tbe i iiwjuloiia snow flower burst through its icy r OOterißg9, anddisplaved its beauties iv^fthe. wondering Russian Jtoyalty.

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