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Mr. Holford, Euonymus Thunbergianus, as the shrub which he 
considered the most beautiful of autumnal shrubs, but this year 
the leaves are still green in December, and show no signs of 
colouring. This want of colour may be entirely put down to the 
want of sun during the summer ; leaves require good sunshine to 
develope their colours as much as flowers do; and that they were 
unusually late may safely be put down to the frosts of May. The 
cold weather of the third week in May put back vegetation at 
least three weeks ; and leaves, like the trees they grow on, have 
their allotted length of life, and if not destroyed by frosts or 
winds prematurely they run their full course, and if they are 
three weeks or a month late in the usual time of budding they 
will be three weeks or a month late in their decay, especially if 
their life is prolonged, as it was this year, by a mild October and 
November. The mildness of these two months was one of the 
chief climatic features of the year, and the effects in the garden 
were very marked, On the 30th November I noted the following 
plants in flower, omitting varieties, such as different sorts of 
roses, &¢c. :— 
Scarlet and other bedding Erica carnea 
geraniums Multiflora 
Datura Sanguinea Pyrus japonica 
Fuchsia Globosa Yellow Calceolaria 
Corallina Yellow Wallflower 
Gracilis Garrya Elliptica 
Ceanothus azureus Hazel Catkins 
— Gloire de Versailles Spirea Bumalda 
Ivy Helleborus fcetidus 
Helleborus niger altifolius Lychnis dioica pleno 
Borago laxiflora Anthemis tinctoria 
Veronica parviflora Gaillardia 
Rosa polyantha Erigeron Philadelphicum 
—— Involucrata Anemone hortensis 
— Many hybrids Daisies 
Meconopsis Cambrica Coreopsis 
Hydrangea porphyrocladon Achillea Ptarmica pleno 
Rosalba Ruta crithmifolia 
Callirhce involucrata Rudbeckia hirta 
Achillea umbellata Campanula Bourghati 
Eryngium Creticum —— Portenschlagiana 
Potentilla formosa Primula polyantha 
—— ee 
