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grounds. They belong to the genus Polygonum ; one, P. Zucca- 
rvini, the Japanese knotweed, and the other, P. Sachalinense, a 
native of the pee of Sachalin, are both very showy and deco- 
rative. The Astilbe — often known as Sferaea, a member 
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appearance. ‘The sae is attached near ce center of the leaf 
and from this the plant has received the name of umbrella- ee 
by which it is sometimes known. The seedlings of the touch 
me-nots, the ae. with their soft succulent pak and stems, 
were in no way prepared to resist so low a temperature and 
readily succumbed, the smaller ones remaining uninjured, being 
more fortunate than their larger eae fellows. The most 
interesting and remarkable instance was that of the horse-balm, 
Colnsaud Canadensis, a native of this region _ in some places 
It usually prefers rich, rocky woods, but in this 
plantation i is grown in the open. The stems varied in height 
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several instances where two shoots of equal maturity were stand- 
ing side by side, one was entirely 8 while the other re- 
mained uninjured. Among the Compositae two species showed 
evidences of the frost, one of these, pee iil Speciosuim, a 
native of the orient, has proved entirely hardy with us for sev- 
eral years, but its leaves were nipped and blackened the tip ; 
e in the other, a variety of the spotted Joe-Pye weed, Eupa- 
torium maculatum amocnum, indigenous to this ae in wood- 
lands, the stem and leaves were badly affected. 
