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mometer about 30 degrees below zero. The tree grows through 

 the winter, as can be easily proved by measuring the trunk or 

 limbs. 



Mr. Gore had saved his peaches by watering the tops of the 

 trees before sunrise, after severe cold ; his neighbors having had 

 no peaches that year. 



Dr. Trimble remarked that the frost never left the ground upon 

 Mt. Lebanon, so that the famous cedars of Lebanon must grow 

 while the ground is frozen. 



HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 



Mr. Fuller read the following paper : 



There are, doubtless, many persons who are very fond of flow- 

 ers, that would cultivate many more than they now do if they 

 could have them without the trouble of preparing beds and sow- 

 ino- the seeds every season. Besides this trouble there is another 

 which deters many from growing flowers altogether, that is, the 

 uncertainty of getting good fresh seeds. Annual flowers are cer- 

 tainly worth cultivating, but it must be acknowledged that there 

 are very few of them that are superior, if equal, to our best per- 

 ennial varieties. 



When we have obtained a good variety of perennial plants, 

 although they may cost a little more at the beginning, we have a 

 permanent thing, one that can be depended upon from year to 

 3^ear, without the trouble of renewing every year as with annuals. 

 I will remark as preliminary to giving the list that although the 

 plants named are all hardy in the vicinity of New York, yet they 

 will bloom earlier and better if they are covered in winter with 

 leaves, straw, or any coarse litter, just enough to shade them, say 

 two inches thick is all that is necessary, for it is not the cold that 

 destroys them so much as it is the sudden changes Avhich are so 

 common in this latitude. The following fifty varieties we have 

 cultivated several years and believe they will gratify those who 

 will endeavor to cultivate them : 



Hight in 

 Botanical Names. Color, &c. feet. 



1. Aconitum Bicolor Blue and White 3 



2. Aconitum Nepallus Blue 4 



3. Achillea Rosea Red 1 



4. Achillea Ptarmica Plena Double white 1 



5. Arabis Alpina ._ White and yellow | 



6. Campanula Carpatica Cerulea Blue ^ 



