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time, or grow new stock from cuttings, according to the style in which 

 they throw up their new growth. Aucuba Japonica is generally hurt, 

 but not seriously ; in a few places it is killed outright, but we must not 

 label it with the word dangerous. Sweet Bays, Lauristinus, magnolias, 

 Phillyrea, Ilex latifolia, and Perado, Grieslinia littoralis, and Eugenia 

 Ugni are great sufferers. In Tcry many cases the trees are dead, root and 

 branch, but except the Eugenias, which are fit only for the rubbish-pit or 

 the fire, we believe that in the worst cases they will all be found to be 

 alive at the root, and the safest way to deal with them will be to leave 

 them alone till the end of this month, or even till the middle of May, and 

 then to remove those that show no sign of breaking, and prune away the 

 dead wood from tliose that make a fair start. "Where the presence of 

 stunted and half-naked shrubs will be a positive eye-sore, we would ad- 

 vise the lifting of them in May, and supplying their places with specimens 

 worthy of the positions. If planted in the reserve ground, many of them 

 Avill make good growth, and in a year or two may have conspicuous places 

 again. Others will be fit only to take cuttings from for propagation 

 during July and August. 



A large number of interesting American and Chinese plants which we 

 have been putting out during the past three years have suffered materially. 

 Berberis j^epalensis is lost ; Berberis Hookeriau a killed to the ground, but 

 alive from the collar dowuAvards. Berberis glumacea looks as if it could 

 not possibly recover, but it is certainly not dead. Ten species and 

 varieties of Escallonia are gone ; Garrya elliptica, Ceanothus papillosus, 

 under a south wall, Rhamnus alaternus, Quercus ilex, and even the 

 re^jvxted hardy Arbutus TJnedo, are all killed, or but barely alive at the 

 collar. There is scarce a pampas grass left alive in the country. 



On the bright side of this picture we have Berberis Japonicus unhurt, 

 and now pushing with vigour, its old leaves nearly as fresh in colour as 

 they were last autumn. Berberis dulcis, Jamesonii, Darwinii, ai'istata, 

 fascicularis, and the old aquifolium, unhurt ; Cotoneasters of all kinds, 

 ditto ; all the Buxus, ditto ; Ilhododendrons, Gaultherias, Minorca holly, 

 variegated hollies, and the beautiful Ilex Sheppardi, as prim and thrifty 

 as in November last ; Ligustrum lucidum sempervirens has lost its leaves ; 

 £0 for once we may trij) up Mr. Standish, who says it never loses its leaves ; 

 but it would be cowardly to do so when dealing with a winter such as 

 no man living ever saw the like of. Prinos lucidus has lost its leaves, but 

 is quite hearty even in a damp border of heavy loam, which is not a good 

 place for it. The charming Skimmia Japonica holds its huge bimches of 

 scarlet berries, that no bird will eat and no insect mutilate all the winter 

 long, as if some day it would prove a formidable rival of the holly, as it 

 already rivals it in slowness of growth. Our favourite Azalea amoena 

 looks much the worse for the visitation, but is breaking freely, and the 

 knife will make the plants as respectable as ever. The bloom will pro- 

 bably be nil this season. 



Among deciduous trees and shrubs, Cercis, Liquidambar, Weigelia 

 rosea, Eorsythia viridissima, Calycanthus floridus, Bhus cotinus, and all the 

 Spireeas, have come through the trial without losing an inch of wood, with 

 the exception of "Weigelia, which will want pruning into order. Chimo- 

 nanthns fragrans is, Ave fear, non est. If any of our readers have saved 

 old flowering specimens we shall be glad to learn, for it is too good a 

 thing to be forgotten when wc come to this severe test of the relative 



