354 Plants standing out at Pendarves. 



my little experience, I consider firm planting, let it be tree or 

 vegetable, as one thing above all others that ought to be par- 

 ticularly attended to. One other point which we have to "uard 

 against, is the wind : the best plan I have ever found is to join 

 cross pieces of wood, enclosing the stem of the tree, and at each 

 end a post driven in to the depth of 3 ft., and the top firmly 

 nailed to the cross pieces. If this is properly done, no wind can 

 overturn the tree. The wood-work can be covered over so that 

 it will not look unsightly. 



Djjrham Park Gardens^ November 12. 1836. 



Art. VII. List of Plants ivhich have stood the open Air at Pendarves, 

 in Cornwall. By James Mitchinson, Gardener. 



Perhaps it will be interesting to some of your readers to 

 know the plants that have stood the winter here in the open air, 

 as they are those that are most hardy of the plants generally 

 grown in green-houses, &c. The following are such as have 

 been out of doors for several winters: — Fuchsias, nearly all the 

 varieties, or at least about sixteen ; -Salvia cardinalis, S. Gra- 

 ham/, 5. involucrata, and S. angustifcMia ; calceolarias, several 

 varieties, both herbaceous and shrubby ; Richardm oethiopica; 

 and Eriocoma fragrans. Canna indica dies down in winter, but 

 comes up quite strongly every summer, and flowers and produces 

 its seeds. Coronilla glaiica and valentina, Poiygala speciosa 

 and wyrtifolia, Thunbergm coccinea, against a south wall, three 

 winters : the last winter it was cut down with the frost, but 

 sprang again quite strongly from the roots; as did also a plant of 

 //eliotropium corymbosum, against the same wall : each of them 

 had a little litter put round the roots, ^ristolochia sempervirens 

 and Calceolaria arachnoidea have been for two winters in the 

 stump of a hollow tree, about 4 ft. from the ground, without any 

 injury. Tradescantm crassula also grows freely : it dies down in 

 winter, but comes up strongly in spring. 



The Bouvard/a triphylla, f/elichrysum »Stoe^chas, ^ricoides, 

 and foe'tidum (the latter sows itself, and becomes almost a weed), 

 Aloysm citriodora, ^nthyllis Hermann/a, Eriobotrya japonica, 

 Cineraria /lopulifolia, ^^axifraga sarmentosa, Chrysocoma Co- 

 maurea, Melaleuca //ypericifolia, Acacia armata and dealbata, 

 Melianthus major, Passiflora caerulea-racemosa, Tecoma grandi- 

 flora, against a south wall; ^'ster argophylhis, 10 ft. high, quite 

 hardy ; Clethra arborea. Petunia nyctaginiflora and P. phoe- 

 nicea, //ypericum balearicum, Draca^^ia fragrans, three years, 

 having a mat thrown over it in severe frosts, 7 ft. high ; Brug- 

 m6nsm suaveolens, south wall. Camellias are quite hardy, but 

 do not flower so well out of doors as could be wished, except 



