216 EFFECTS OF THE WINTER OF 1853-4. 



Amygdalus angustifolia ; not injured, south wall, Chiswick. 



Amygdalus incana; not injured, south wall, Chiswick. 



Andromeda floribuuda ; not injured, Chiswick. 



Andromeda formosa ; not hurt, Exeter. 



Anemones ; in the height of perfection, Windermere. 



Akaucaria imbricata ; some young plants injured, Keiv ; not 

 injured, Chiswick; unhurt, Bayfonlhury ; uninjured in every 

 position, Alton ; much injured and many of the leaves dead, 

 Rolleston; a fine plant ten feet high, on the east side of the 

 house, escaped with very little damage, Shiffnal ; much injured, 

 and several young plants dead, on the west side of the house, 

 Shiffnal ; lower boughs turned brown, some quite killed, Ossing- 

 ton ; many killed, Nottingham ; uninjured, Congleton; not hurt, 

 Exeter, and Soutlumrpton ; all more or less injured, some killed, 

 Chatsworth; unm]uved, Bicton; stands sea breezes well, Singleton. 



Araucaria Braziliensis ; killed, Bicton ; a fine plant thirteen 

 feet high, protected, is slightly cut, but recovered. Singleton. 



Araucaria Ridolfi, killed, Chiswick. 



Araucaria Cunninghami ; dead, South Devon. 



Aralia spinosa ; dead, Alton. 



Aralia japonica ; killed to the ground, on the east side of the 

 house, Shiff'nal ; only the points of the shoots killed on the west 

 side of the house, Shiffnal. 



Araijas ; suffered much, above their temporary winter cover- 

 ings of grass mats, on a south wall, Edinburgh. 



Arbutus procera ; edges of leaves browned and destroyed but 

 otherwise uninjured and flowering, Chisivick ; is alive in an 

 exposed situation, growing freely until nipped by the frost in 

 April, Shiffnal; uninjured. Singleton. 



Arbutus Andrachne; killed to the ground, Shiffnal; killed, 

 Oulton ; not hurt, Exeter ; uninjured. Singleton. 



Arbutus Unedo ; killed down to the ground in 1838, injured 

 but slightly by last winter's cold, Kew ; not injured, Chiswick; 

 leaves very much blotched and injured. Ware ; dead, Rolleston ; 

 killed to the ground, Shiffnal ; all killed, some specimens were 

 thirty years old, the bark forced off the trees by the frost, Not- 

 tingham ; killed down, Oulton; very much cut in the open 

 ground, Liverpool ; tops cut, and foliage browned, Exeter ; much 

 damaged, and of young plants five feet high, some have been 

 killed, while others are not injured, Dropmore ; much cut, old 

 plants forty or fifty years old, never been hurt before, Ossington ; 

 slightly pinched, Southampdon. 



