120 Mr Gorric on the Tenderness of some well-known Plants. 



withstand our milder winters, have all been killed ; but iu 

 a letter recently received from General Burroughs, he 

 mentions that a collection of" those that I sent him some 

 years since are all thriving well in the island of Rousay, 

 Orkney, where V. decussaia has become naturalised, and 

 is one of the best of sea- wind resisting shrubs. 



Vihurnmn Tinus. — The common Laurustinus has either 

 been entirely killed to the ground, or so much cut down 

 that only the thicker parts of the larger branches are alive. 



Ulcx ncma (the dwarf Whin or Furze). — Fine estab- 

 lished plants were killed on the rockery in 1878-79, as 

 was also a young plant of the double-flowered IT. europcea; 

 while last winter 1 arge plants of the latter were either 

 entirely killed or cut down to the ground, as were also 

 those of the Irish Whin, U. htricta, and of the French 

 Whin, U. jirovincialis. 



On the Flowering of Yucca gloriosa, L., in the Roycd 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. By John Sadler, 

 Curator. (Plate II.) 



(Read 13th November 1879.) 



About the end of August last (1879) numerous plants of 

 Yucca gloriosa or Adam's Needle showed symptoms of 

 flowering, more especially those on the Rock Garden. By 

 the beginning of October upwards of a score of specimens 

 of this stately evergreen were in full flower, and formed 

 the object of considerable attraction to the general public. 

 All the plants, with the exception of two which were only 

 partially developed, were very handsome, with their tower- 

 ing compound panicles of drooping bell-like flowers of a 

 creamy white colour, tinged with purple on the outside. 

 They varied in height from 8 to 11 feet — that is from the 

 ground to the top of tlie inflorescence. I am not certain 

 whether the plants in the Botanic Garden are the typical 

 form of the species. Judging from the descriptions and 

 figures given in botanical works of Y. gloriosa, I am in- 

 clined to think that the leaves of our plants are shorter and 

 more deeply channeled, and that the lateral branching 



