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escaped deatli have lost the terminal bud, Avhich, as a nile, is equivalent 

 to the loss of symmetry for ever, though in some cases top-shoots will 

 perhaps start away and form good substitutes for the original leaders. 

 The beautiful Saxe-Gothea conspicua is in many sheltered places hope- 

 lessly injured, in exi)osed places completely gone. Fitz-Roya Patagonica 

 is variously cut up, in some places so as to be ii'recoverable, in others 

 sufficient to spoil its beauty for some years to come, but, generally speak- 

 ing, death has spared the species. A well-established and fine pair of 

 Librocedrus Chilensis, in a sheltered border in our own garden, where the 

 thermometer did not fall to zero on the night of December 25, are so 

 scathed that we doubt if they will ever recover so as to be sightly. Many 

 young plants of Cedrus Deodara have perished on bleak hill-sides and boggy 

 grounds. Cedars of Lebanon have not utterly escaped ; Cupressus Go- 

 veniana, torulosa, Uhdeana, and macrocarpa have been thinned in a 

 terrible manner, but have not been swept away so completely as others 

 named above. Thujopsis borealis and Secjuoia sempervirens are sufferers 

 almost universally, but the survivors of this class of conifers can be cut to 

 shape, and in a few years will be none the worse for the visitation. 



All things considered, this list of conifers incapable of withstanding 

 the utmost rigours of oiu' climate is not disheartening. Though we can- 

 not complacently spare any that have been enumerated as swept away or 

 cut about, we can enumerate a good list of species that have passed through 

 the ordeal imscathed. On the same bank in our own garden where Pinus 

 insignis has become a browned corpse, with not a drop of living sap even 

 in its roots, Cedrus Deodara lost only a few insignificant branches and all 

 its leaves, and is now breaking beautifully, and will soon be covered with 

 its plumy foliage, as handsome as ever. Young specimens of Thuia 

 gigantea have lost their leaders beside Abies pinsapa, which has not a 

 stain upon it, and every bud swelling as if we had had no winter at all. 

 Fortune's Cephalotaxus looks a little shrivelled, but is breaking well, and 

 may be reckoned as hardy as a common yew. The noble Wellingtonia 

 gigantea has not suffered anywhere, whether on wet or dry soils. Pinus 

 excelsa, cembra, Gerardiana, Cryptomeria Japonica, Cupressus funebris, 

 Lawsoniana, and MacNabiana, the Torreas, ThujojDsis dolabrata, Abies 

 Deodara, all the neat habited conifers enumerated in our recent articles 

 for culture in pots, the American Thuias, the true Thuia Japonica, the 

 golden Thuia, Abies Ivhutrow and orientalis, Librocedrus decurrens. Biota 

 compacta, Taxus baccata, adpressa, Canadensis, and the fancy-foliaged 

 yews are all safe and unhurt, and, as far as concerns temperature, e\T.- 

 dently capable of bearing anything likely to befall them in the whole 

 range of the British Islands. Cephalotaxus drupacea has stood the last 

 three winters in the grounds of Messrs. Lawson, at Edinburgh, and may, 

 therefore, be added to the lists of safe kinds to plant anywhere. "We have 

 not seen or heard of a crippled jimiper. In our oAvn garden, the tops of 

 young plants of Junipcrus Chinensis foemina, and Gossainthanea, are a 

 little browned, but not to an extent to give occasion for serious lament, 

 while the handsome Hispanica, Phoenicia, Virginiana stricta, Y. stricta 

 glauca, and the procumbent savins, are all unhurt. 



Among miscellaneous evergreens there has been a clean sweep made of 

 all the evergreen Euonymus, but in most cases they are alive at the root, 

 and will break again. We have taken up all our plants, and put the 

 stools in nursery quarters to make plants of the best of them at a future 



