512 Effects of the Winter o/^ 18 37-8, at Kilkenny. 



Art. VI. Report on the Effects of the Winter o/' 1837-8 on the Exotic 

 Trees and Shrubs in the Kilkenny Nurseri/, and in that Neighbour- 

 hood generally. By John Robertson, F.H.S., &c. 



Meeting your wish to procure reports on the effects produced 

 by last winter's frosts amongst our exotics, I forward you some 

 memoranda I had made on the subject in this neighbourhood. 

 The okl half-hardy shrubs, in the open air, such as alaternus, 

 laurustinus, &c., received not the slightest injury under any 

 circumstances ; neither were the following, of more recent intro- 

 duction, hurt : — 



New or valuable 



Bentham/« fragifera 

 OMea excelsa 

 ZJiiphne Dauphinii 



coUuia 



neapolitana 

 Magn6h"« consplcua 



SoulangiftHa 



purpurea 

 Cunninghain/r/ lanceolata 

 t'upressus lusitanica 



pendula 



Plants, in the ojien Ground, which stood Jininjured. 



Mah6ni« ^quifolium 

 Berberis dulcis 

 Macliirrt aurantiaca 

 jSolanum crispum 

 Hakea acicularis 

 linearis 

 superba( heart leaves Callistemon lophanthus 



slightly hurt) Jcacia longifolia 



glaucescens armata 



draconis (protected /entiscifolia 



by a cap-glass) marginata 



J'unlperus chinensis 



lycia 



bermudiana 

 Pistacia Zlerebinthus 

 Eriobotrya japonica 

 Yucca gloriosa 



