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19. H., Windermere. [G. C. 357.) 



20. Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



During Monday night the 2ud of January, the thermometer 

 fell to 1 1°, and during Tuesday night the ord of January, the 

 instrument fell to 14°. The next lowest during January was 

 on the night of the llth, when the thermometer fell to 20°. 

 During February, the lowest was on the night of the 10th, when 

 the thermometer fell to 25°. The effects of the past winter upon 

 vegetation have not been so bad here as in many districts of the 

 country. During the January frost, the plants were all in a fit 

 state to stand it, the wood being well ripened the previous year, 

 and no excitement in the plants by previous mild weather, which 

 proves so injurious with a less degree of frost at a later period 

 of the spring. Of the half-hardy shrubby plants very few indeed 

 have been killed, although many on the south-aspected wall 

 suffered much above their temporary winter coverings of grass 

 mats. In the open ground the greatest havoc committed was 

 amongst the biennial plants ; and of the shrubby open-air plants, 

 some small ones planted during the previous summer, and not 

 sufiiciently sti'ong to enable them to stand a severe winter, were 

 cut up. — J. McNab. 



21. Messrs. Veitch and Son, Exeter. 



22. Botanic Garden, Liverpool. (G. C. 405.) 



23. R. A. Hornby, Esq., Warrington. (G. C. 405.) 



24. Mrs. Wilson, Shirley Common, Southampton. 



Gai'den exposed to the south-west, but sheltered slightly on 

 the north and east. 



25. The Baroness Rolle, Bicton, near Honiton, Devon. 

 Throughout January the thermometer indicated from 8° to 17° 



of frost, accompanied by cutting north and north-easterly winds. 

 No very serious injury was then done to the plants. The nights 

 of March and April were frosty, the thermometer showing, on 

 many mornings at sun-rise, from 6° to 10°. The sun rising 

 brightly, and shining fiercely on the thick hoar-frost, began to 

 sear and rust many plants ; but it was on the two last weeks in 

 April the most serious injury was done here, after the sap was 



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