It is sufficiently hardy to bear the cold of our ordinary 

 winters without shelter, but is liable to be much defaced, and 

 in severe frosts to be quite killed, as happened to a very large 

 shrub of this kind which stood for many years in the Apothe- 

 caries Botanic Garden at Chelsea, near the entrance. It should 

 never be trusted abroad in frosty weather when young- ; and 

 indeed it always appears much handsomer in the greenhouse 

 or conservatory. In the late Dr. John Fothergill's green- 

 house at Upton, there was one little inferior in size to that 

 at Chelsea, and much more beautiful, which was sold for 

 forty pounds, when this valuable collection was brought to 

 the hammer. 



Produces its flowers generally in large terminal erect 

 racemes, in March, April, and May, but rarely or never 

 bears fruit with us. Native of the Levant and the Crimea, 

 growing from the clefts of rocks. Cultivated in Dr. She- 

 rard's garden at Eltham in 1724. Communicated by John 

 Walker, Esq. 



