63G Foreign Notices : — Germany. 



and asiatica; also Spartium, Genista, and Cytisus.* The CTlex 

 is frozen as far as it was above the snow. The small plants, such 

 as the North American caprifoliums, Clematis, Fitis, Ampelop- 

 sis, Periploca, and even the ivy with its varieties, are frozen down 

 to the root.* The species of Cornus, such as Cornus panicu- 

 lata, asplenifoHa, Ribes sanguineum, speciosissimum, Clethra, 

 T^ibiirnum cassinoides; 72hus vernix, elegans, copallina ; jBham- 

 nus, &c., have all more or less suffered. 



All the evergreen shrubs, some of which used to stand the 

 open air in our garden, are either completely killed, or have 

 suffered so much from the frost that they are unsightly, or have 

 assumed a sickly appearance. All the species of 7^1ex, ZJ'phedra, 

 /)aphne altaica, Gaultherza Shailon^ Auciiba, and ^lixus are 

 killed. The Coniferae have suffered very much; indeed, large 

 trees of PinusLaricio are killed. Cedrus Libanz ; Taxus cana- 

 densis, and baccata ; Thuja pyramidalis, orientalis, nepalensis, 

 &c,, have suffered considerably : also the Californian species of 

 Pinus, which were planted in the open air for experiment. 

 Groups of /Rhododendron, which had stood in the open air 

 twenty-two years, are, for the greater part, killed, although they 

 were well covered. Magnolias, azaleas, kalmias, andromedas, 

 and vacciniums, were not covered, and are uninjured. 



This is a short sketch of those plants, which appear to be 

 dead, or which are very much injured by the frost. It is to be 

 feared that many more such will be found, which it is not pos- 

 sible to ascertain at present. 



I should be very glad to receive information of the effects of 

 the winter in other gardens ; and I therefore entreat the friends 

 of gardening, nurserymen, and collectors of plants, to send me 

 such communications. It would be of general use, and much 

 instruction would be derived from it. — Berlin, May 5. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 



GERMANY. 



Garden Imjyrovements in Hanover. — " Around a considerable part of the 

 town, runs a new street, in the place of the old rampart, with handsome houses 

 on one side of it, and a broad walk, with rows of trees, on the other side ; beyond 

 these trees, beautiful park-like gardens are laid out, which would do credit to 

 a larger or richer city than Hanover. The land on which all these improve- 

 ments have been made belongs to the city, and the present stadt-director, M. 

 iiuhmann, whom I have mentioned to you as one of the most violent oppo- 

 nents of King Ernest, is the great promoter of all the plans for embellishing 



* According to the Ankalt Gartenbau Zeitung, Cytisus purpureus, well pro- 

 tected, is the only species that has been injured by frost; C. iaburnum, and 

 the variety <7uercif61ium had not suffered. 



-|- The ivy is completely killed at Anhalt, also Vinca. major, and some plants 

 of Tinea minor. 



