508 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lx. 



Australian and other Foreign Trees and Plants 

 IN Arran — ALL Unprotected. By Eev. David Lands- 

 borough. 



Introduction, p. 508. 

 Palms, p. 510. 

 Tree-Fems, etc., p. 511. 

 Palm-Lilies, p. 513. . 



Acacia, Agalma, Grevillea, Lomatia, Eliododendron, p. 514. 

 Eucalyjjts in Scotland, p. 515. 

 Additional Trees and Shrubs, p. 5 "2 7. 

 South of Arran, p. 513. 

 Girth measured, unless otherwise stated, at 5 feet, 1895. Revised 1896 — 

 Measurements unchanged. 



IXTRODUCTIOX. 



The winter of 1879-80 was so severe that it occurred 

 to the late 'Mr. Sadler, Curator of the Eoyal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, to request persons in various parts of 

 Scotland, who took an interest in plants, to send him 

 reports regarding the effects of the frost in their districts, 

 that from these he might prepare for the Botanical Society 

 of Edinburgh a condensed report of the effect produced 

 throughout Scotland.* The writer, though not residing in 

 Arran, having been long associated with the island, was 

 requested to report for it. The Arran report so interested 

 Mr. Sadler that he asked the writer to make one yearly. 

 This was done until 1885, when one more detailed than 

 any pre%ious was given, with the intimation that now the 

 reports for a time would cease, but at the end of six years 

 the writer hoped to send another. The year named 

 arrived, but found him so bu-sy as to be unable to carry 

 out his intention. The frost, however, of last winter 

 (1894-95) has been so severe and so protracted as to 

 recall his promise, for a report immediately after such a 

 winter ought to be one of peculiar value. Besides, during 

 the intervening ten years, many additional plants have 

 been tried in Arran, and thus much new information can 

 be given. The object of this paper will be threefold, — 

 Firstly, to mention the rare plants that have been tried in 

 Arran ; Secondly, to relate how they have succeeded ; 

 Thirdly, to give the intensity of frost to which those killed 

 have succumbed. 



* See Trangactions and Proceedings of Edir. Eot. Soc., 1879, 1885-86, 



