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treated as a subtropical shrub I cannot say. I have 

 seen it so at Isola Bella, in Lake Maggiore, where 

 winter is often cold and stormy. 



At Lakelands, near Cork (Mr. Crawford's), I 

 observed, amongsit a choice collection of Bhododen- 

 drons in the open ground, It. Thompson! above eight 

 feet high ; of A*. Fakoneri, one plant nine feet, and 

 another nearly as high; JR. Dalhomianum, with 

 abundant flower-bud. A bush of this variety is re- 

 ported as standing out in Arran, down the Clyde,, 

 above ten years, and having one spring one hundred 

 and forty flowers. It. was grafted on E. ponticum, 

 and never suffered from frost, whilst others of the 

 same kind growing near it were occasionally so in- 

 jured. Amongst Conifers, I likewise there observed, 

 in the autumn of 1874, Cryptomeria eJegans and 

 Araucaria Braziliemis above twelve feet high and 

 well-shaped ; Dacrydium Franklinii and Podocarpm 

 undina, or Pmmnopitys cleg am the latter from Chili, 

 whose fruit is edible about fifty feet high; Picea 

 hracteata, P. yrandis, Abies De&oneana, and A. polita. 

 Iscria policarpa, called also Poly car pa Jfaximowii, is 

 here about ten feet high. This is described as a 

 charming Japanese climbing shrub, with large ele- 

 gant heart-shaped leaf, and purple berries, which are 

 said to be edible. On different parts of the dwelling- 

 house are vigorous plants of Berberidopsia corallwa, 

 from eighteen to twenty feet high, which bloom 

 abundantly. Bignonias, which I elsewhere men- 

 tion) are well grown here, and deserve much more 



