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experience of most persons who have attempted accli- 

 matizing plants, that success not unfrequently is the 

 reward, when from the habits of the plants, and the 

 character of the climate from which they come, a con- 

 trary result might be anticipated. We remember in 

 England some ten years since, seeing at Chatsworth a 

 plant of Weigela rosea, in a house built, if we mistake 

 not, expressly for it, because Sir Joseph, then Mr. 

 Paxton, did not think it hardy judging probably from 

 the country to which it belonged ; and now there is no 

 more common and hardier shrub, and, we may add, 

 more beautiful in the season, or one more generally 

 planted in the Northern States. Mr. London very truly 

 observes, " That though the nature of a species cannot 

 be so far altered as to fit an inhabitant of a very hot 

 climate for a very cold one, yet that the habits of in- 

 dividuals admit of considerable variation, and that some 

 plants of warm climates are found to adapt themselves 

 much more readily to cold climates than others ; thus 

 the common passion flower, according to Dr. Walker, 

 when first introduced into the Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden, lost its leaves during the winter, but in a few 

 years the same plant retained the greater part of them 

 at that season." The same author relates that plants of 

 the common yew, sent from Paris to Stockholm, to 

 plant certain designs of Le Notre laid out there for the 

 King of Sweden, all died, although the yew is a native 

 of that country as well as France. 



" Every gardener," he says, " must have observed that 

 the common weeds which have sprung up in pots, in 

 hot-beds, or in hot-houses, when these pots happen to 

 be set out in the open air, during winter or spring, 

 have their leaves killed or injured, whilst the same 

 species growing in the open ground are uninjured." 



We have ourselves observed, that peach trees in pots, 

 if by chance they are left out all winter, are destroyed, 

 though the same tree in the ground can resist any 



