Hardiness of Xox-ooniferotts plants in England. — The following information, 

 although in reference to an English climate, "will not be without interest to collectors of 

 new and rare plants in this country, as it indicates what may reasonably be expected here : 



" "We resume our remarks upon the effect of the past winter on non-coniferous plants. 



"Much was hoped from Daphne Foriuni, a beautiful species from China, but it can only be now 

 considered as a green-house plant ; the whole of the Daphnes must, indeed, be regarded as unfit 

 for the winters of this country, except D. Cneorum, pontica, laureola. 



"The Deutzias, with the exception of crenata, the young wood of which was cut l^ack near 

 London, seem as hardy as Syringas. There is, however, less evidence as to D. staminea than 

 scahra and gracilis. 



" Dichjtra sprcfabilis requires no further trial ; it bears cold as well as a Pteony ; but when in 

 full growth and flower, its succulent tender shoots are apt to suffer from the frosts of spring. 



"Such experience as had been gained respecting the beautiful and graceful Tikapu, Dracaena 

 (or Cordyline) indivisa, of New Zealand, seemed to justify the expectation that it would endure 

 our winters — at least as far north as London ; and this was rendered the more probable in con- 

 sequence of its forming part of the natural vegetation of Dusky Bay: but the illusion is very 

 effectually dispelled. It is indeed reported to have suffered no injury in Messers. Veitch's nur- 

 sery, Exeter; and we can add, from pe sonal observation, that the four graceful specimens deco- 

 rating the beautiful terrace-gardens at Osborne are also quite safe, although facing the north; 

 but Chiswick, Shiffual, and Congleton, to say nothing of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, bear witness 

 to the hopelessness of growing it, except in some favored southern locality. 



"Durauas seems to be tolerably hardy; about as much so as a narrow-leaved Phillyrea. 



"The evidence as to Edwardsias remains unaltered by our present experience; they are hardy 

 enough to be worth training on south walls for the sake of their handsome winter flowers, but 

 their possessors must expect te find their beauty destroyed in every rigorous winter, although 

 their general health may suffer no material injury. 



"Of the Mediterranean Heaths, belonging to the arborescent breed, we scarcely know what to 

 say, except that they are not to be depended upon north of London. Even in the south they 

 are injured here and there ; and yet even arborea, the tenderest of all, experienced no inconven- 

 ience in such situations as the north of the Isle of Wight. 



"The glorious Bscallonia macrantha must rank in hardiness with the Arbutus and Bay; and 

 like those plants will doubtless be universally cultivated wherever they will stand, even at the 

 risk of what may happen with the thermometer at 4°. After such a summer as this has been, 

 we should expect the plant to be as hardy as a Laurel ; because its wood will doubtless have 

 ripened. But when it remains soft, as it is apt to do in consequence of the disposition of the 

 species to grow late, it must necessarily lose the ends of its shoots. Where this occured last 

 winter, the wood that was ripe still survived and broke freely in the spring. We fear, how- 

 ever, that it cannot be called hardy in the northern counties. Of the other Escallonias, pul- 

 verulenfa proved the tenderest, and 7nont€vidensis the hardiest; rosea and its varieties are about 

 as hardy as a Gum Cistus. 



"From what we have now learned, it is certian that experiments with the New ITolland Gum 

 Trees (Eucalypti) should be multiplied in every direction. It is true that K robusta, (/lobuhcs, 



