Rare plants in the North include the wrinkled rose, Pennsylvania bird cherry, Daurian tea, and small-leaved linden. The garden contains plants originally planted by monks of the Solovetsky Monastery between 1870 and 1920, as well as by prisoners of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp between 1927 and 1936. The oldest plants of the garden are Siberian cedars and Pallas’ apple trees that are over 100 years old. The larch alley, planted in 1935–1936 during the period when the special purpose camp was in operation, lends the garden a particularly solemn atmosphere. Originally used for prayer and seclusion, Makaryevskaya Pustyn ceased to be isolated by the mid-19th century. Two chapels, a boulder ice cellar for storing food, and a wax-bleaching facility were constructed. The water released when the wax melted was piped to heat greenhouses and a conservatory where fruit and flowers were cultivated. In 1855, the Alexander Nevsky Chapel was erected in memory of the events of the Crimean War on the Solovki Islands. In 1862, the two-storey «Archimandrite’s Dacha» building was constructed.