394 Transactions. — Botany. 



The temperature is rarely hot in summer or cold in winter, 

 the highest registered being on 7th February, 1894, when the 

 thermometer rose to 85°, Fahr. in the shade, and the lowest 

 in July of the same year, when it fell to 16° on grass. The 

 thermometer every year rises on three or four days to 80°, 

 and falls about the same number of times to 20°. 



The average yearly rainfall during the last nine years is 

 56in., falling most in winter, but also freely at short intervals 

 during the other months, so that drought is practically un- 

 known. A few of the trees, shrubs, and plants have only 

 been tested one winter ; but a large proportion of them were 

 severely tried by a succession of keen frosts on the 5th, 6th, 

 and 7th August, 1875, which destroyed a number of shrubs, 

 among them two kinds of cinchona and several kinds of rho- 

 dodendron which had withstood the colds of previous winters. 

 Many of the native shrubs suffered severely. No record of 

 the degrees of frost was kept, but, as those which were killed 

 were not replaced, and most of the others have resisted the 

 cold of several winters, the following may be considered as 

 hardy in this locality. 



The iigures attached to some of the trees and shrubs show 

 their height at the present time ; but, as they were planted in 

 different years, as obtained from varying sources, comparisons 

 as to growth cannot be made. Only in one class — the three 

 varieties of Geclrus — the relative growth is shown. They were 

 planted at one time — 29th April, 1871 — and were placed near 

 together, under equal conditions in every respect. They were 

 healthy plants about 15in. high, and have continued healthy 

 and vigorous, and as they grow singly the foliage is dense, 

 and they are clothed down to the ground — fine specimens of 

 their kind. 



List op Plants at ""The Gums," 1896. 



Abelia 



uniflora. 



triflora. 

 Abies 



alba, 50ft. height, 1896. 



alcoquiana. 



amabilis, 18ft. 



balsamica, 30ft. 



bracteata, 20ft. 



concolor, 9ft. 



douglasii, 35ft. 



firma, 30ft. 



fraseri, 8ft. 



grandis, 6ft. 



hookeriana, 25ft. 



Abies 



jezoensis, 9ft. 

 lasiocarpa, 8ft. 

 menziesii, 20ft. 

 montezuma. 

 morinda, 40ft. 

 nobilis, 18ft. 

 nordmanniana, 35ft. 

 orientalis, 30ft. 

 parsonii, 25ft. 

 pattoni, 35ft. 

 pectinata, 35ft. 

 pindrow, 32ft. 

 pinsapo, 30ft. 

 rubra, 10ft. 



