Hardiness of some Exotic Plants. Ill 



Caucasus, in each of the summers 1878 and 1879, produced 

 flowering stems 9| feet in height, the two lower branches 

 having a spread from point to point of 9 feet ; and when 

 covered with myriads of small white flowers, the appear- 

 ance is presented of a little tree covered with snow. The 

 leaves, which are produced in abundance from early spring 

 continuously throughout the summer, often measure more 

 than 2 feet in width, and are supported on solid stems 

 averaging about 2| feet in length. Having withstood the 

 severity of last winter unharmed, and being easily propa- 

 gated both by seeds and division of the roots, this seems 

 highly deserving of cultivation for cattle feeding and other 

 purposes. 



20. Cimningliamia sinensis has stood on a rockery without 

 injury. 



21. Desfontonia spinosa has stood unharmed in a some- 

 what shaded situation, where it is partly protected from 

 direct radiation by a small Scotch fir, and has flowered both 

 in the present and last summer. 



22. Dimorpliantluis mandshuricus. — A ten-year old plant 

 of this elegant foliaged shrub of North China, w^hich is 

 about 8 feet high, is now (12th August) producing flower 

 panicles freely at the extremities of its thick shoots, w^hicli 

 are clothed with many umbrageous, bipinnate leaves, some 

 of which measure 4 feet in length by fully 3 feet in width, 

 and bear considerable resemblance to those of the Aralia 

 japonica, a plant of which, growing in near proximity, 

 sufi'ered in winter 1878-79, and was killed last December. 



23. Diplopappus chrysopliyllus. — This highly interesting 

 evergreen shrubby member of the natural order Composiice, 

 has withstood the last two winters perfectly on a south 

 wall, as well as in various parts of the open ground, and 

 only requires to be better known to insure its general culti- 

 vation. The wall plant is 6^ feet in height by 3 feet wide, 

 and presents a compact surface of minute foliaged spray, 

 the golden colour of the young shoots, and under sur- 

 faces of its leaves, contrasting conspicuously with the deep 

 shining green of their upper surfaces, and specially re- 

 commending the branchlets for bouquets and table de- 

 coration. 



