#spiraea salicifolia

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Spiraea salicifolia (Pajuangervo)

Photograph from June 2024

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Spiraea salicifolia

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Rødovre (2) (3) (4) (5) by Bo Helsted

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Spiraea salicifolia, willow-leaved meadowsweet or Aaron's beard (lat. Spiraéa salicifolia).

A shrub appreciated by gardeners for its decorative image and unpretentiousness. I found the plant in the forest in only one place. I think the beauty accidentally flew in with the seeds because of the proximity of the place of discovery to the village.🌱

Спирея иволистная (лат. Spiraéa salicifolia).

Кустарник, ценимый садоводами за декоративный образ и неприхотливость. Мной растение было обнаружено в лесу только в одном месте. Думаю, красавица случайно залетела вместе с семянами из-за близости места находки с деревней.🌱

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Thursday 5 September 1839

7

10 50/..

Good comfortable night in our spacious airy bedroom – doing and repacking portmanteau etc. till about 9 – then had Gross – breakfast 10 ¼ the Russian steamer arrived from St. P- at 5 this morning – F69 ½° now at 9 50/.. breakfast at 10 ¼ - ticketing minerals etc. till now 11 ¾ - calèche (neat carriage) and out at near 12 – to the Russian steamer – good accommodation but the Captain in bad English talking of rough water – A- frightened – did not them engage the places – well they be gone tomorrow? then to the bank or counting house (merchants not bankers) of Messrs. Tottie and Aufwedson [Arfvedson] – young man who speaks good English very civil – exchanged 2 circulars nos. 8586 and 8587 = £50

8586

8587

8588

paid 2 rigs dollars

Palace about 1 first musée pictures and statues and then the old wardrobe of royal cloths – could not see the royal apartments – nor the library – then to the park – paid 6sk. banco on entering – at the Kings’ petite chateau at 4 – Sumach, red dogwood, and ditto with red berries – Spiraea calcifolia [salicifolia]– several pretty sorts of ragwort and scarlet Lychnus [Lychnis] and Michaelams china asters marigolds dahlias – sumach headed down to about a yard from the ground had made shoots above a yard long this year – oaks small and tall planted this spring and headed down to about 2 yards long – much narrow leaved willow pretty – double chamomile – much lilac cut down short, and shrub-wise – oat-sheaves stuck tall small poles to dry as in Norway etc. – much Norway maple here and everywhere – its autumnal scarlet beautiful – much birch too – a moss on the fine large old oaks here as yellow (ochre) as the red (rud) moss on the stones in the forests about our own journey from Upsala [Uppsala] – noticed this yellow moss 1st time today – and saw a little of red in the forests near Stockholm on our return –

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September Thursday 5 – at the mint (collège des mines) at 4 – i.e. 4 ¾ by my watch – plan (model of) the gold mine at Adelfors [Ädelfors] on a little island on the wetter lake –

métallurgie pratique du fer......... par Walter de St. Ange avec atlas – Paris Libraire Scientifique et industrielle du L. Mathiers (Augustin) Quai Malaquais no. 15 1835-8 4to.

the Captain of the Russian Steamer Furst Menschicoff said this morning that the exchange was 41 skillings rigs. for one paper rouble

41 sk. rigs = 27 2/3 sk. banco say 28sk. banco = 1 paper rouble

banco 11.30.0 = £1

11.30x48 = 550/28 = 10 18/28

then say nineteen thirds of a sk. banco = 6 sk. banco and say one has at this rate 20 roubles for £1 then the loss per £1 = 1/6 or ¾ English or about 16 ½ p.c. terrible!

¾ hour at the mint for nothing but to give the garçon a rigs. dollar – he knew nothing – not even whether the professor of mineralogy was in town or not – very few specimens ticketed – most of them locked up and we no better for sauntering along the 3 or 4 rooms – home at 5 ¾ - heated up in our little boiler the rest of our yesterdays’ lamb (very good) and had bad coffee – out (in the carriage) again at 7 to 8 ½ - the King dined today with the Russian minster Comte [Mastuzevre] on board the Russian steamer that brought him here – the vessel all decorated with steamers as we passed – that we missed seeing thinking he was returned as we came back – had Grotza – F66° at 9 50/.. pm. very fine – the fine view Jean has persuaded us to go to see even so late from Moses’ mountain turned out to be the hill-café near St. Catherines’ church that William Riddle our Götheborg [Gothenburg] coach man took us to see – glad to see it again even by twilight – very beautiful – and our former knowledge restored what the lateness of the hour (7 1/4)........obscured – then drove about the principal to the large hotel now building began Jean says this spring – the site in the time of Gustaf 1 a large hill of gravel and sand from which he bombarded the castle

taken away to fill up with about the new bridge and up to the pretty double flight of stairs and the lions – all that used to be water

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Day 43. May  Spring  Shanghai |  Spiraea salicifolia 粉花绣线菊

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Rhamnetin (7-O-methylquercetin, 1) and its glycosides were found for the first time in the genus Spiraea (Rosaceae) during chromatographic studies of representatives from the subgenus Protospiraea. Leaves of S. salicifolia yielded 1, rhamnetin-3-O–D-glucopyranoside (2), and two new flavonoids 3 and 4 that were identified by UV, IR, and NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry as rhamnetin-3-O-(6–O-p-coumaroyl)- -D-glucopyranoside (spiraearhamnin A, 3) and rhamnetin-3-O-(6–O-caffeoyl)–D-glucopyranoside (spiraearhamnin B, 4). Leaves of S. betulifolia and S. betulifolia var. aemiliana afforded 1 and 2 and glycosides of kaempferol, quercetin, and isorhamnetin. Species of the subgenus Metaspiraea (S. alpina, S. chamaedryfolia, S. dahurica, S. hypericifolia, and S. media) did not contain 1 or its derivatives.

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068-Willow leaved Spiraea, Common Dropwort, Meadow Sweet, Mountain Avens, Common Avens, Water Avens - spiraea salicifolia, spiraea filipendula, spiraea ulmaria, dryas octopetala, g - high resolution image from old book.

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spiraea salicifolia - high resolution image from old book.

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土庄绣线菊 【Spiraea salicifolia】

meadow sweets

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Friday 25 October 1839

7 ¾

1

fine morning F59° now at 9am. at Murray (Thibet vol. 2 p. 1047) till breakfast at 9 ½ to 10 ¼ - then looking at maps till 11 ¾ maps of Asia and Asiatic Russia – out at 11 50/.. drove to the Imperial garden bought about 3 years ago of ......... walked thro’ a sort of garden [previously] and alighted at our destination at 12 20/.. – walked about a little – a sort of botanic garden – but A- soon starved and we went into the Serres to warm her – very much amused and interested I left her at 2 35/.. in the serres while I walked round the gardens extending some way along the Moskva river – in summer we should often visit these gardens if stationary at Moscow – I walked about ½ hour – the air sharp and cold tho’ Leopold said only 6° of cold of Reaumur = about 45° Fahrenheit I think he must have been wrong – it must have been colder but said he we always feel starved when the first cold comes – but when the great cold comes we shall not feel it so much as we feel the little cold now! – from the garden drove perhaps near a mile beyond the Smolensko barrier for a good view of the city which certainly looks vast and imposing from this road – walked some part of the way back to the barrier – stopt at a farmstead to watch the people chop very small the cabbages in long deep troughs – salt etc. to be added to make shee as pronounced by Leopold – home at 4 40/.. – dressed – dinner at 6 10/.. to 7 – before and after (tea in ¼ hour at 8 10/..) read Murray (slumbered a little just after dinner) – Thibet, Asia a little of Tartary, and wrote all but the two first lines of today till now 12 5/.. tonight at which hour F62 ½° very fine day – on our return found the card of ‘Constantine Thal’ – will call again at 11am tomorrow – In the serres today

Eugenia Australia [Australis] looks rather like grenadier but pretty white flower like feather-columbine formed by the innumerable stamina which, falling off, leave the one long pistille and the quatrifide pinkish capsule looking like a pinkish 4 petalled flower.

Saturday 26 8br. –6° R. = about 21° F.

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melaleuca stifeloides [styphelioides], and ruscifolia, and one other [species] the 1st lille a small leaved skiry myrtle.

Eucalyptus pulverularata [pulverulata?] – glaucous – leaves in pairs, no leaf-stalk – set close on the stem, the 2 leaves almost joining together so as to form a sort of ruche round the stem – the pairs about ¾ in. from each other ( opposes interchanged) -  

Pinus Todea [Taeda] (Linnaeus) 2 leaves from one sheath, set thickly round the darkish coloured stem – the leaves thinner, finer, and considerably longer than those of its neighbour the

P. halepensis also 2 leaves from one sheath but straggling, i.e. set thinly on to the whitish stem. (Do not remember having had an opportunity of observing this Pinus before) –

Calceolaria Echile with pretty, little, cockle-shell,yellow flower, and leaf like a narrow leaved wild balm – the  Spircaea the man called calcifolia [salicifolia] at Upsala [Uppsala], might be Spiraea calceolaria? (Fischer at St. Petersburg knew nothing of S. calcifolia [salicifolia])

Metrosiderus [Metrosideros] rugulosa, angulosa, intermedia, etc. – the leale of all these [species] like the narrowest willow leaves, but a fine dark myrtle-green and glandulated comme les myrtes et des feuilles des orangers.

Phillyraea [Phyllirea] latifolia, and alaternus – little apparent difference in the leaves of the 2 [species] the leaf shaped rather the grenadier leaf (very slightly serrated) but dark green

Amaranthis [amaranthus] tricolor (Love lies bleeding? coxcomb?) –

Rubus laciniata [laciniatus], pretty sort of cut-leaved bramble – would be nice for Shibden –

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Wednesday 11 September 1839

3 ¼

11

F61 ½° at 4 ¼ am much rain in the night and sandy road .:. 6 horse off at 5 6/.. at Kyrkstad at 6 55/.. I hot and much bit in the night

K- to Bolstad 14 w.

Njölbolstad 13 w.

Helsingfors 68 w.

St. P- 480 w.

the woman had not been able to get us any Swedish money .:. agreed that she should take a 10 Rubel bill and be answerable for 6r. for the horses and take 4 towards her own bill and I paid her (at the rate 40sk. rigs per rubel) for the 2 remaining rubels

7 eight sk. banco notes i.e. 1.5.4+0.2.8 given over – very civil good tempered looking woman – much pleased we were so satisfied – remembered Handbook and his friend very well – said they had given her a small bit of money which she kept for their sake – I happening to have my 3 silver ½ dollar banco silver pieces in my pocket gave her one of them (that has a hole thro’ it) and desired her to keep it for I should ask to see it again sometime – Better rooms and house at Keala [Kealanoja]  last night but better eating here – Rain again and off in the rain at 5 6/.. – I slept most of the way – all forest till 6 55/.. when fine and sunny, and stopt to change horses /4 again) at some distance from the station house (did not even see it) near a small cottage where the red square headed mile post is set up – I got out for a few minutes very usefully the village must be near the station house on our left – scattered farms and cottages about – a pretty opening – very pretty country – wide winding wooded hill enclosed valley – a bit of forest again (young wood) in about hour+ - but good road – sandy land – but the road hard gravel like an English park road about 12ft. wide as usual, but sometimes less nice country all along to Bolstad at 8 ½ - stopt again in the road so[me] distance (left) 200 or 300 yards from the station house – walked to it – to see the direction post – could not find one – poor place – I think we could not well sleep there – the people 2 or 3 men and a woman

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September Wednesday 11 at breakfast a little fish (apparently salted?) and boiled potatoes 2 rigs dollars a ton dearer here than at Stockholm – at last it was agreed that the woman should pay for our 4 horses from here 15 ½ w. to Everby [Ofverby] = 3.72 and the young man (her son?) gave me two 20kop. notes + one 75 kop. + two two-kop. copy pieces + two ½ sk. banco pieces for 4kop. = 5 Rubel – 5 kop. no wonder Handbook complained of their accommodation for the night – that is not the place to stop at – all Finnish commerce with Stockholm .:. all their money payments among themselves are in Swedish money but they are obliged to pay the taxe for posting in Russian money .:. are obliged to receive it for their horses – their wood (salmon) butter all goes to Stockholm but now they have the douane to pay = 2 rigs dollars per 60lbs. and being obliged to sell their butter at the Swedish price as they did before without duty they of course now lose this – and so equally the whole of the duties paid by them to Sweden is now a loss to them – the village of Bolstad not apparently very near the station – nice country – off from B- at 9 2/.. and at 9 ½ pretty lake and unpainted cottages and hamlets dotted here and there – green basin valley and lake and rounded wooded hills – in about 10 minutes more or ¼ hour come down upon the water wood bridge and cross it at one end where it looks river like – very pretty hereabouts rock and wood and water and villages and farms or cottages – a good deal of wind which curly the water – corn cocks as yesterday but now 9 ¾ it is rye – steep pitch up from the bridge and sandy road – at 10 ¼ moss-rocky forest – uphill and our horses hardish passed – all along sandy – pretty country – very pretty drive – at 10 50/.. at next stage to Finns 12 ½ w.

Helsingfors 39 and St. P- 451 w.

Öfverby (pronounced Everby) – small unpainted house – but probably might sleep tho’ not good - but the woman a decent woman – off at 11 – cocks of corn out here – rye I think – very pretty – rocky wooded hills and scattered unpainted little cottages and so red – the village of Ofverby (its neat little church at the foot of the hill just beyond the station) seems

September Wednesday 11 seems widely scattered in patches – winding pretty valley – round hilly and rather sandy – in ¼ hour (11 ¼) foresty again – several of the bare rocks today very white – all granite

the Fins a stupid looking people – here and there a red house but the red seems to bespeak a certain degree of [afflict] – the being better off than common – and here as in N. and S- the [?] (contamine) is growing as a weed among the rocks – we have not seen it as weed elsewhere because the land kept too clean – no weeds seen – now at 11 50/.. another wooded pretty lake right – and A- and I have just had a little of our Keala [Kealanoja] coq du bois that we brought away in paper – very good – many hamlets scattered about today – the country today seems more populous than yesterday? – at Finns at 12 13/..  

to Grahn 14 ½ w.

Helsingfors 26 ½ w.

St. P- 438 ½ w.

might sleep but not perhaps good place for it tho’ the civil woman came to say she could change a 5 Rubel note

nice open country about here wooded in the distance – 2 or 3 cottages near the station house – and large village or two of unpainted houses little distance (left) – rather pitchy last stage and at = off at 12 34/.. from Finns out with a steepitsh pitch from here and then pass thro’ a few houses and over 3 [?] bridges the unpainted cottages very picturesque dotted all round about interspersed  with patches of fir wood and wooded hill and well cultivated vale – now at 12 ¾ a little sun forest light – little pretty vale just below us right green rye and corn in cock (probably rye) not much oats grown in Finland? cottages or barns dotted up and down – fine foresty peopled drive this stage at 1 ¼ unpainted village in the widish basin vale little distance left of road and good yellow house and one or 2 red houses near – all looks well hereabouts – and slow at 1 20/.. descending and at the bottom of hill another pretty little lake near (left) – the openings and rounded dark pine wooded hills very picturesque – much mammelonné [mamelonné] rocky hill and bare and moss covered rock and boulder in our forest and sandy road now at 1 1/2 – here and everywhere much more Scotch fir than Spruce – this forest now at 1 ¾ the best as to size of trees (but none large) we have passed thro’ -

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September Wednesday 11 in Finland – it opens out and we stop at Grahn at 1 57/.. nice little single house on a little [eminence], looking dry and comfortable – I should suppose one might sleep there as well as at Nyby or better? – the wide valley on plain studded with houses, farms, barns – the proportion of red increasing as if to denote our approach to the capital Helsingfors 12w. distance – large [?] beautiful lengthy finely wooded wooded island lake right sweeping along the wide valley – road hilly but tho’ rather sandy, good – forest covered rock alongside (left) – have written, or rubbed out pencilling, or read Handbook (article St. Petersburg) all this morning except added up the whole but 1 or 2 pp. of the Swedish account – since leaving Götheborg [Gothenburg] It seems (vide p. 174. 2nd vol.) that our pastor on board the steamer was M. Edouard de Moralt minster of the reformed church at St. P- and ‘the learned editor of an edition of Minuties’ Felix’ – probably Handbook knows him and sent him his book en cadeau? now at 2 20/.. road very sandy in the forest – at 2 40/.. gentleman’s house right – very pretty – a company of soldiers pass us – forest and break – very pretty – at 2 ¾ pass (close) broad shallow lake – at 2 55/.. Helsingfors church in sight – whitewashed like several other large neighbour buildings – church a fine object – fine looking town with its beautiful fjord – forest and break till now 2 55/.. that we emerge to bare Götheborg-like [Gothenburg] scantly wooded rocky hill – and gardens and houses marking our approach to the capital – at 3 at the water – beautiful view – cross good wood bridge – and at 3 ¼ at the Hotel du Nord – the fine dressed woman who came to us could do nothing – must wait for mademoiselle how should we stay – there was a room au 3me – I got tired of this work and drove off to the society’s house fronting the harbour – settled

September Wednesday 11 there very comfortably at 3 ½ - 2 nice rooms and lodging for the servants at 6 rubels a day – au 3me? but good – ordered dinner at 6 ½ and A- and I out at 4 10/.. – took John – to the botanic garden –

Stymphoricarpus [symphoricarpos] racemosus (snowberry bush) in flower

Vïburnum [Viburnum] Lentago a little like prunus padus but with broader leaf

V- dentatum (leaf something between the hazel and syringa leaf?)

Lonicera caprifolia [caprifolium] (as called by the gardener) the shrub I observed at Åbo with a little orange coloured berry, looking a [specie] of honeysuckle

Populus canescens (white abele)

P. cardifolia

Delphinium.  several specie large beautiful blue flower – a little in the style of aconite – have often seen it in a pot in the window in these northern parts

Lythrum, several specie pretty pink flower in spikes 6 or 8 inch long – narrow leaf – would be pretty (to give colour) at Shibden and hardy enough -  

Asclepias incarata [incarnata] (in flower – pinkish – pretty would do at Shibden)

Phlox several specie pretty little genus-pink and white – in flower like a smooth sweet William – 6 petal flower – the white very common in England gardens

Borago officinalis – pretty blue flower – 5 petals woolly stern and leaves – whatever will do well out of doors here, would do at Shibden – much wind today must be very cold, and exposed in winter – the garden garden divided into small compartments for the flowers, and sheltered by hedges the tall ones of lilac, and acacia, and Norway maple and the low ones of Spiraea calcifolia [salicifolia] – try this hedging plan at Shibden with along the middle a hedge of Spruce firs – or Sycamores? a very pretty hardy looking mespilus? or [?]? with clusters of hawthorn-like (but larger) red haws – Inquire for this –

In returning about 5 ¾ set John at liberty and A- and I sauntered into and about the handsome new not finished church – a Greek cross with 4 Corinthian porticos and pediments – then stood some while listening to the military band and came in at 6 ½ - dinner at 6 ¾ soup, mutton cutlets, sort of

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September Wednesday 11

sweet omlet, and afterwards a sort of roll pancaky thing for dessert – no mead now – too late in the season – had plenty in the summer - .:. had each 2 cups of coffee – then siding had Grotza – then wrote the last page till now 10pm. very fine day – a good deal of wind all day but this afternoon particularly, and particularly here – a very handsome town – fine day F61 ½° now at 10 ½ pm

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Thursday 5 September 1839

7

10 50/..

Good comfortable night in our spacious airy bedroom – doing and repacking portmanteau etc. till about 9 – then had Gross – breakfast 10 ¼ the Russian steamer arrived from St. P- at 5 this morning – F69 ½° now at 9 50/.. breakfast at 10 ¼ - ticketing minerals etc. till now 11 ¾ - calèche (neat carriage) and out at near 12 – to the Russian steamer – good accommodation but the Captain in bad English talking of rough water – A- frightened – did not them engage the places – well they be gone tomorrow? then to the bank or counting house (merchants not bankers) of Messrs. Tottie and Aufwedson [Arfvedson] – young man who speaks good English very civil – exchanged 2 circulars nos. 8586 and 8587 = £50

8586

8587

8588

paid 2 rigs dollars

Palace about 1 first musée pictures and statues and then the old wardrobe of royal cloths – could not see the royal apartments – nor the library – then to the park – paid 6sk. banco on entering – at the Kings’ petite chateau at 4 – Sumach, red dogwood, and ditto with red berries – Spiraea calcifolia [salicifolia]– several pretty sorts of ragwort and scarlet Lychnus [Lychnis] and Michaelams china asters marigolds dahlias – sumach headed down to about a yard from the ground had made shoots above a yard long this year – oaks small and tall planted this spring and headed down to about 2 yards long – much narrow leaved willow pretty – double chamomile – much lilac cut down short, and shrub-wise – oat-sheaves stuck tall small poles to dry as in Norway etc. – much Norway maple here and everywhere – its autumnal scarlet beautiful – much birch too – a moss on the fine large old oaks here as yellow (ochre) as the red (rud) moss on the stones in the forests about our own journey from Upsala [Uppsala] – noticed this yellow moss 1st time today – and saw a little of red in the forests near Stockholm on our return –

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September Thursday 5 – at the mint (collège des mines) at 4 – i.e. 4 ¾ by my watch – plan (model of) the gold mine at Adelfors [Ädelfors] on a little island on the wetter lake –

métallurgie pratique du fer......... par Walter de St. Ange avec atlas – Paris Libraire Scientifique et industrielle du L. Mathiers (Augustin) Quai Malaquais no. 15 1835-8 4to.

the Captain of the Russian Steamer Furst Menschicoff said this morning that the exchange was 41 skillings rigs. for one paper rouble

41 sk. rigs = 27 2/3 sk. banco say 28sk. banco = 1 paper rouble

banco 11.30.0 = £1

11.30x48 = 550/28 = 10 18/28

then say nineteen thirds of a sk. banco = 6 sk. banco and say one has at this rate 20 roubles for £1 then the loss per £1 = 1/6 or ¾ English or about 16 ½ p.c. terrible!

¾ hour at the mint for nothing but to give the garçon a rigs. dollar – he knew nothing – not even whether the professor of mineralogy was in town or not – very few specimens ticketed – most of them locked up and we no better for sauntering along the 3 or 4 rooms – home at 5 ¾ - heated up in our little boiler the rest of our yesterdays’ lamb (very good) and had bad coffee – out (in the carriage) again at 7 to 8 ½ - the King dined today with the Russian minster Comte [Mastuzevre] on board the Russian steamer that brought him here – the vessel all decorated with steamers as we passed – that we missed seeing thinking he was returned as we came back – had Grotza – F66° at 9 50/.. pm. very fine – the fine view Jean has persuaded us to go to see even so late from Moses’ mountain turned out to be the hill-café near St. Catherines’ church that William Riddle our Götheborg [Gothenburg] coach man took us to see – glad to see it again even by twilight – very beautiful – and our former knowledge restored what the lateness of the hour (7 1/4)........obscured – then drove about the principal to the large hotel now building began Jean says this spring – the site in the time of Gustaf 1 a large hill of gravel and sand from which he bombarded the castle

taken away to fill up with about the new bridge and up to the pretty double flight of stairs and the lions – all that used to be water

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Sunday 25 August 1839

3 ½

10 ¾

fine morning A-‘s neck poorly – off from Stockholm at 5 ½ in little carriage and 2 horses – no forbud – at Rottebro [Rotebro] (single house) at 7 13/.. – terrible boulder stone pavé in Stockholm and terrible and many deeo channels there – good road nice drive – about ¾ of the way very pretty wooded lake – Rottebro [Rotebro] one story red smeared wood house – not good to sleep at – sun now at 7 ½ am it peeped out about 7 – very fine morning – off in 13 minutes – good road – nice drive – nice good country for Sweden – peeps now and then of wood pretty lake (right) Maista [Märsta] single farm house not good to sleep at – A – very cold – very good road – forest with moss green rocks as in Norway but no large old trees – there open country – less encumbered with rock and boulder than in the other parts of Sweden that we have seen – better farming? and better crops? corn in stook and to cut – peas drying on poles reared in a circle and meeting at top like a Lapland hut – hops  very fine morning – Alisk [Alsike] single house – better than the 2 last – perhaps one might sleep here? Hamlets and villages and farms thinly scattered today – wondered at their being so thinly scattered close to the capital – the country here seems better peopled than just out of the gates of Stockholm –

Snow-ploughs lying at the roadside here as everywhere

From Alisk [Alsike] to Upsāla [Uppsala] very pretty drive – excellent road – open country – at 11 40/.. good wood bridge over broadish stream and then fine vist view thro’ forest by and by sun to terminate in the huge brick chateau built on a hill qui domine the 2 steepled cathedral and the city – arrived at 12 20/.. – Hotel de la poste – ordered dinner at 2 – changed our dress – out at 1 40/.. – to the cathedral – large

August Sunday 25 handsome (clean) whitewashed church – a large crucifix over the altar – beneath the pedestal of the crucifix a cross over which hung a serpent – the altar in decoration like a Roman catholic altar  the congregation was assembled at 2 and the organ played and the people sang psalms till 2 20/.. the preacher began the epistle at 2 20/.. and we staid 10 minutes longer – his manner perfectly quiet, but he spoke clearly and impressionably – home at 2 40/.. dinner at 2 ¾ in 35 minutes – then I dozed on the sofa till near 4 – up so early – and driving all the way (A- and I in front – John Winter our new courier and the peasant behind) and having nothing to eat but a little gingerbread with A- between 10 and 11 as we sat in the carriage at Alisk [Alsike] (from 10 27/.. to 11 10/.. one of the horses being shod in the meantime) i.e. little to eat from 4pm. yesterday to 2 ¾ today, made me feel sleepy – out at 4 to the botanic garden – our courier did not even know Linnaeus by name – but he native of Hamburg was courier to prince Oscar 3 years – then set up at Stockholm as loueur de voitures – failed recently and now gets his living as well as he can  - was with Captain Wilbraham of the 7th regiment a fortnight ago for 4 days – went to Dannemora – not time for Falun – off to St. Petersburg – Captain W- asked if ladies descended at Danemora [Dannemora] – no! none but English ladies and several of these had been down! – a civil intelligent garçon gardener shewed us the Serres and orangery and garden ground immediately around them – the building called orangery handsome – but no orange trees to be seen there or near there (a few in the serres the man said) the tubs outside filled with our common and Portugal laurels – ivy in pots outside – will no[t] do well out of doors! yet common sorts of palmiers seemed healthy in the orangery larger and healthier than what we saw in the serres – a thing very common hereabouts and forming a low hedge at the botanic garden is Spiraea calcifolia [salicifolia], flower like sweet dock

no fire in the hot houses

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August Sunday 25 Spruce firs planted at 2 foots, hedgewise – and others cut into cones or looked better as obelisks or a paral of 2 rows of them just below the chateau (in the part of the botanic garden between the museum and chateau) – these spruces looked just as well as if they had been yews and might be got up in ½ the time – the museum Thunbergs’ collection a poor concern – birds etc. ill stuffed and not in the best preservation – the specimens (an infinity of serpents) in spirits locked up in dark cupboards – many duplicates and bad arrangement – the statue of Linnaeus sitting – book in his hand – contemplating his favourite flower (Linnaea borealis)  not a chef-d’oeuvre, but interesting -  

2 or 3 specimens of Gigantic Elk – caught near here 6 or 7 years ago as I understood – but one of John’s (Winter) friends shot one last winter about 1 ½ mile from here – salted it the meat a delicacy – some left – we are to tasted it – this animal in all the forests here – the horns covered with a sort of down – as also the horns of the rein-deer. can buy here the salted tongues and hams of rein deer

Fringa, several [species] of, found in the isle of Gothland sur le bord de la mer – curious sort of ruff round its neck do not recollect having seen this bird anywhere before

Platalea pygmaea caught here pigmy spoonbill said to be the only specimen of the kind to be found in any museum –

August Sunday 25 Tetrao generic name of moor game

common barn-door fowl classed Phasianus gallus.

Heron, genus ardea.

from the musée sauntered to the chateau – the governor resides in one part – prisoners before their trail are confined in another part – many rooms unfurnished – the 3 or 4 towers (at one each corner) look well – but the modern parts – one front with a pediment are terrible – fine commanding situation – the views from it have excused us the trouble of going to the top of the cathedral – old Upsāla [Uppsala] full in view from the chateau – nothing worth seeing says our courier when at mora – merely a few stone with no inscriptions at all – then walked down thro’ the town to the Steamer that plies daily between Stockholm and here in 5 hours – deck passage 2 dollars rigs. – salon double that John thinks – nice vessel enough – deck covered with awning as usual - Upsāla [Uppsala] a nice town – the most livable we have seen – not so low and water girt as the towns in Sweden in general in which one fancies one could not breathe for damp and fog – the castle cathedral university buildings library etc. on high ground – fine fresh air, and agreeable – our Inn comfortable – the first house just below the new library and nicely situated – a drop or 2 of rain between 4 and 5 and afterwards but held off till we came in at 7 ½ - then a shower – till then very fine day – no supper – no wish for anything since dinner excellent veal cutlets (carbonnade) and preserved gooseberries and fried morsels of potato – then soup – then fritters – such is the order here – all good – had just written so far (inked all over accounts and all) now at 10 pm at which hour F60 ½°

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Sunday 25 August 1839

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10 ¾

fine morning A-‘s neck poorly – off from Stockholm at 5 ½ in little carriage and 2 horses – no forbud – at Rottebro [Rotebro] (single house) at 7 13/.. – terrible boulder stone pavé in Stockholm and terrible and many deeo channels there – good road nice drive – about ¾ of the way very pretty wooded lake – Rottebro [Rotebro] one story red smeared wood house – not good to sleep at – sun now at 7 ½ am it peeped out about 7 – very fine morning – off in 13 minutes – good road – nice drive – nice good country for Sweden – peeps now and then of wood pretty lake (right) Maista [Märsta] single farm house not good to sleep at – A – very cold – very good road – forest with moss green rocks as in Norway but no large old trees – there open country – less encumbered with rock and boulder than in the other parts of Sweden that we have seen – better farming? and better crops? corn in stook and to cut – peas drying on poles reared in a circle and meeting at top like a Lapland hut – hops  very fine morning – Alisk [Alsike] single house – better than the 2 last – perhaps one might sleep here? Hamlets and villages and farms thinly scattered today – wondered at their being so thinly scattered close to the capital – the country here seems better peopled than just out of the gates of Stockholm –

Snow-ploughs lying at the roadside here as everywhere

From Alisk [Alsike] to Upsāla [Uppsala] very pretty drive – excellent road – open country – at 11 40/.. good wood bridge over broadish stream and then fine vist view thro’ forest by and by sun to terminate in the huge brick chateau built on a hill qui domine the 2 steepled cathedral and the city – arrived at 12 20/.. – Hotel de la poste – ordered dinner at 2 – changed our dress – out at 1 40/.. – to the cathedral – large

August Sunday 25 handsome (clean) whitewashed church – a large crucifix over the altar – beneath the pedestal of the crucifix a cross over which hung a serpent – the altar in decoration like a Roman catholic altar  the congregation was assembled at 2 and the organ played and the people sang psalms till 2 20/.. the preacher began the epistle at 2 20/.. and we staid 10 minutes longer – his manner perfectly quiet, but he spoke clearly and impressionably – home at 2 40/.. dinner at 2 ¾ in 35 minutes – then I dozed on the sofa till near 4 – up so early – and driving all the way (A- and I in front – John Winter our new courier and the peasant behind) and having nothing to eat but a little gingerbread with A- between 10 and 11 as we sat in the carriage at Alisk [Alsike] (from 10 27/.. to 11 10/.. one of the horses being shod in the meantime) i.e. little to eat from 4pm. yesterday to 2 ¾ today, made me feel sleepy – out at 4 to the botanic garden – our courier did not even know Linnaeus by name – but he native of Hamburg was courier to prince Oscar 3 years – then set up at Stockholm as loueur de voitures – failed recently and now gets his living as well as he can  - was with Captain Wilbraham of the 7th regiment a fortnight ago for 4 days – went to Dannemora – not time for Falun – off to St. Petersburg – Captain W- asked if ladies descended at Danemora [Dannemora] – no! none but English ladies and several of these had been down! – a civil intelligent garçon gardener shewed us the Serres and orangery and garden ground immediately around them – the building called orangery handsome – but no orange trees to be seen there or near there (a few in the serres the man said) the tubs outside filled with our common and Portugal laurels – ivy in pots outside – will no[t] do well out of doors! yet common sorts of palmiers seemed healthy in the orangery larger and healthier than what we saw in the serres – a thing very common hereabouts and forming a low hedge at the botanic garden is Spiraea calcifolia [salicifolia], flower like sweet dock

no fire in the hot houses

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August Sunday 25 Spruce firs planted at 2 foots, hedgewise – and others cut into cones or looked better as obelisks or a paral of 2 rows of them just below the chateau (in the part of the botanic garden between the museum and chateau) – these spruces looked just as well as if they had been yews and might be got up in ½ the time – the museum Thunbergs’ collection a poor concern – birds etc. ill stuffed and not in the best preservation – the specimens (an infinity of serpents) in spirits locked up in dark cupboards – many duplicates and bad arrangement – the statue of Linnaeus sitting – book in his hand – contemplating his favourite flower (Linnaea borealis)  not a chef-d’oeuvre, but interesting -  

2 or 3 specimens of Gigantic Elk – caught near here 6 or 7 years ago as I understood – but one of John’s (Winter) friends shot one last winter about 1 ½ mile from here – salted it the meat a delicacy – some left – we are to tasted it – this animal in all the forests here – the horns covered with a sort of down – as also the horns of the rein-deer. can buy here the salted tongues and hams of rein deer

Fringa, several [species] of, found in the isle of Gothland sur le bord de la mer – curious sort of ruff round its neck do not recollect having seen this bird anywhere before

Platalea pygmaea caught here pigmy spoonbill said to be the only specimen of the kind to be found in any museum –

August Sunday 25 Tetrao generic name of moor game

common barn-door fowl classed Phasianus gallus.

Heron, genus ardea.

from the musée sauntered to the chateau – the governor resides in one part – prisoners before their trail are confined in another part – many rooms unfurnished – the 3 or 4 towers (at one each corner) look well – but the modern parts – one front with a pediment are terrible – fine commanding situation – the views from it have excused us the trouble of going to the top of the cathedral – old Upsāla [Uppsala] full in view from the chateau – nothing worth seeing says our courier when at mora – merely a few stone with no inscriptions at all – then walked down thro’ the town to the Steamer that plies daily between Stockholm and here in 5 hours – deck passage 2 dollars rigs. – salon double that John thinks – nice vessel enough – deck covered with awning as usual - Upsāla [Uppsala] a nice town – the most livable we have seen – not so low and water girt as the towns in Sweden in general in which one fancies one could not breathe for damp and fog – the castle cathedral university buildings library etc. on high ground – fine fresh air, and agreeable – our Inn comfortable – the first house just below the new library and nicely situated – a drop or 2 of rain between 4 and 5 and afterwards but held off till we came in at 7 ½ - then a shower – till then very fine day – no supper – no wish for anything since dinner excellent veal cutlets (carbonnade) and preserved gooseberries and fried morsels of potato – then soup – then fritters – such is the order here – all good – had just written so far (inked all over accounts and all) now at 10 pm at which hour F60 ½°