ON NATURALIZING TENDER PLANTS. 3 



fifteen or eighteen in a hundred. The soil 

 in which they are raised is light, and the 

 beds are covered with sand ; in other re- 

 spects, there is no particular care taken of them, 

 except keeping them very clean. What por- 

 tion of this success depends on climate, cannot, 

 as I have already said, be known, till experiments 

 on a similar scale are tried in England. It is, 

 however, true, that the bulbs are frequently in- 

 jured in the winter, by a frost which has no 

 effect on the hardy geraniums ; so that it would 

 be requisite in this country to guard against 

 this danger, at least by matting or occasionally 

 covering the beds. I may add, that some of its 

 congeners, the Amaryllis belladonna, vittata, un- 

 dulata and formosissima, also flower in Guernsey 

 without care, and with great certainty and vigour. 

 A shrub of great beauty, the Magnolia grandi- 

 flora, is well known to be shy of flowering in 

 England, if we except the mild climate of 

 Cornwall, to which that of Guernsey bears a 

 near resemblance. In this little island, however, 

 its flowering is as certain as its growth is luxu- 

 riant. Among the more hardy of the tender 

 plants which also grow freely in Guernsey, and 

 which Cornwall but barely preserves through 

 the rigour of winter, are the Hydrangea hortensis, 

 Fuchsia coccinea, Geranium zonale, inquinans, 

 radula, glutinosum, and some others, which pass 

 the winter without difficulty, and emulate in 



