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' cussedness/ and it is well to give them the protection 

 of wire for the first season or two, after which they may 

 be considered safe. It is also true that some herbaceous 

 plants, such as the Japanese day-lily (Hemerocallis), are 

 apt to be tasted when first pushing a succulent growth 

 in spring ; but when they have become established, little 

 harm results from this, and when the clump has grown 

 strong and has assimilated with its surroundings lost its 

 newly-planted look rabbits pay it no further attention. 

 So many people have expressed their gratitude for 

 the publication of the list in the first series, that it has 

 occurred to me that it might be useful to reprint it as 

 an appendix to the present volume, with certain addi- 

 tions which subsequent experience has confirmed. These 

 additions are, among shrubs, Choysia ternata, Clematis 

 (all species), Olearia hassti, Cassinia (Diplopappus) 

 fulvida, Berberis (all species), Rubus (including the 

 fine American species); and among herbs, Spircea (all 

 species), bamboos (many, probably all, species), day-lilies, 

 lily of the valley, New Zealand flax, etc. 



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The present winter (1899), remarkably mild up to 

 now, has confirmed the impression which A mUd 

 must often have suggested itself to observers winter 

 of wild animals, namely, that their existence is devoted 

 to two main objects the supply of food and the duty 

 of reproduction. All through January there has been 

 no lack of food ; not even the film of ice has crusted 

 the pools; the grass has grown without a check, and 

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