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was unhurt, and has flowered well since. Jasminum primulinum 
was killed to the ground even against a wall, and appears to be of 
no value for outdoor cultivation. Magnolia Delavayi, destroyed in 
the open ground, is unhurt on an east wall. Several young plants 
of Poliothyrsis sinensis were killed in the nursery, but others are 
growing well. Poupartia Fordii, has survived. The following rare 
Chinese trees and shrubs, growing in the open ground without any pro- 
tection, were quite unaffected: Liriodendron chinensis, Euptelea poly- 
andra, FE. Francheti, E. Davidiana, Tetracentron sinense, Eucommia 
ulmoides, Pertia sinensis, Sycopsis sinensis, Eleutherococeus Henryt, 
Berberis Wilsonae, B, dictyophylia, B. acuminata, Trachelospermum 
erocostomum (On a wall), Cotoneaster adpressa, C. applanata, 
C. moupinensis, C. humifusa (seedlings were injured), C. bullata, 
C. rugosa var. Henryi, Viburnum Carlesii, V. rhytidophyllum, Rosa 
Hugonis, Itea ilicifolia, Schizophragma integrifolia, Sinefranchetia 
sinensis and Sophora viciifolia. 
A great number of plants have recently been raised from seeds 
presented to Kew by Prof, Sargent which had been collected by 
Mr. EK. H. Wilson during his last journey in China. Nothing 
definite can be put on record about them because most of them are 
unnamed and under numbers only. Further, they had only been 
planted in the open ground a few months. Most of them, however, 
ave survived, although many have been cut back to ground level. 
very little. Fitzroya patagonica and Libocedrus chilensis are un- 
touched, Of the 
Bamboos.— These afford the worst evidence in Kew of the winter's 
havoc, and the appearance of the Bamboo Garden at the time of 
writing (June) makes one doubt whether a large portion of the 
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single species probably has been killed or ’ 
ar ia ce pes Cf many is entirely dead, and only sg ~— 
ground rhizomes are alive. Others, which on Christmas Day last 
constituted some of the freshest and certainly most graceful masses 
of greenery in the gardens, are now leafless stems with no. ae 
beauty than a bundle of pea-sticks. And the worst consequence 0 
a season like the past one is, that, so late are Bamboos in renewing 
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