The odor of delicate hot-house plants is in the slightly enervating atmosphere of the apartments.

It is a Russian fancy to fill the dwelling-rooms with delicate, forced foliage and bloom.

In no country of the world are flowers so worshipped, is money so freely spent in floral decoration.

There is something in the sight, and more especially in the scent of hot-house plants, that appeals to the complex siftings of three races which constitute a modern Russian.
We, in the modest self-depreciation which is a national characteristic, are in the habit of thinking, and sometimes saying, that we have all the good points of the Angle and the Saxon rolled satisfactorily into one Anglo-Saxon whole.

We are of the opinion that mixed races are the best, and we leave it to be understood that ours is the only satisfactory combination.