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number of which have been raised from seed sent from India a 

 good many years ago, and are now fine plants ranging up to 10 feet 

 high and as much through, have suffered considerably in their 

 foliage, but few, if any of them, are killed outright, and most of 

 them are breaking well from the old wood, and promise soon to 

 recover their former vigour. 



Ampelopsis hederacea has suffered a good deal, but A. 

 Veitchii is only very slightly injured, the points of the young 

 shoots being nipped. Clematis lanuginosa, and others of the i?ame 

 delicate strain are killed, while all the C. JacTcmanii tribe are 

 perfectly uninjiured. Lonicera hrachypoda aurea-reticidata, and 

 Jasminum Wallichianum are killed to the ground. Hedera 

 canariensis lost all its leaves and young shoots, and H. Rcegeriana 

 had about half of its leaves destroyed. The "Walnut has two- 

 thirds of the length of last year's shoots killed ; and a good many 

 trees of various kinds are observed with an unusual niimber of 

 dead points of their last season's growth, arising, no doubt, from the 

 severity of the frost acting on the badly-matured growth of last year. 



Tea and Banksian Eoses, on walls, are generally killed to the 

 ground, including Marechal Mel; but most of them are starting 

 again from the surface of the ground. That fine Tea Kose, Gloire 

 de Dijon, has not been injured in the slightest, and is flowering 

 very profusely. Hybrid Perpetual Eoses also suffered a good deal 

 of injury, and many of them are dying, or so badly hurt as to be 

 wortliless. The common China or Monthly Rose has been cut to 

 within a few inches of the ground. 



Pampas Grass has suffered severely, and so has Tritoma Uvaria, 

 the foliage of both being killed to the ground, and many plants 

 of each killed outright. 



Among hardy fruit plants there has not been much damage done 

 by the frost. Peaches and Nectarines, on walls, have suffered 

 most, a good deal of the young shoots being either killed or so 

 badly injured as to be useless. The result is no fruit, and the trees 

 present a very ragged appearance. Strawberry plants, where 

 exposed to the full sun in winter, have been a good deal injured by 

 the repeated freezing and thaAving. Most kinds of fruit trees had 

 abundance of blossom upon them this spring, especially cherries 

 and plums ] but, owing to the unmatured state of the buds last 

 autumn, it set badly, and there will not be above an average crop of 

 fruit as a rule. Some few trees are heavily loaded, but a great 

 many have not a fruit upon them, — fully two-thirds of the Pear 

 trees being a blank. Currants and Raspberries are abundant: 

 Gooseberries and Strawberries about an average. 



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