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three or four months of every summer.] i7ype*ricum aegyptia- 

 cum, in the open border in its pot, with the roots through, 

 endures the winter, and flowers a long time. Commellna 

 tuberosa, from Mexico, stood two winters in the open border, 

 is very strong, and flowers freely. Mimulus glutinosus, in its 

 pot, under a south wall in a poor dry place, endured four winters 

 without covering, is six feet high, flowered freely, and ripened 

 seeds. Marrubium Pseudo-dictamnus, under a low south 

 wall, in its pot, in poor dry earth, endures the winter, and 

 flowers freely. Disandra prostrata has endured three win- 

 ters, and produced seeds. A single Oleander, under a south 

 wall, has endured one winter without protection. Pittosporum 

 Tobira has lived several winters in an open border, at about 

 eight or nine feet distant from a high wall with a west 

 aspect. Broad-leaved myrtles cover a terrace wall thirty-six 

 feet long, along with some iycium afrum ; the soil a fine 

 sandy loam of ten or twelve inches on a clayey bottom. In 

 winter the roots are covered with moss, and the stems and 

 branches against the wall with two good mats thick. These 

 myrtles flower every year, and in dry summers as plentifully 

 as hawthorns, and yield ripe seeds. [If some of these were 

 carried away by the birds and dropped in a warm coppice, 

 they might spring up and live under the protection of whins, 

 hollies, or hazels, for many years ; and some stranger herbalist, 

 bent on discovering something, might record the myrtle as 

 a native of Scotland.] Several plants of Canna indica have 

 been planted in the open borders every year ; they rise near 

 five feet high, blossom freely, and ripen seeds. Jasminum 

 revoliitum, Teucrium flavum, Coronilla valentina and glauca, 

 are quite hardy, as are *Senecio lanceus, and iliedicago arborea. 



In Mr. Street's paper in the Caledonian Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Memoirs^ he states that the following species stood 

 the winter at Biel, in borders or against walls : — AloyszVz 

 citriodora (formerly Ferbena triphylla), killed annually to 

 the ground, but shoots up again. Cneorum tricoccum, in a 

 warm border. Px'xs, chinensis, with the protection of a hand- 

 glass. Buddle/a globosa, under an east wall. Ueliotr opium 

 peruvianum, under a south wall ; and ^nchusa italica, in the 

 open border. Convolvulus ctlthaeoides and Cneorum, under 

 a south wall. Lonicera implexa and flava, iinum tauricum, and 

 Agapanthus umbellatus stood without covering. "Sanseviera 

 carnea, from China, survived the severest winters, and flowered 

 freely in the summer. Phormium tenax, from New Zealand, 

 bore the winter, but did not produce flowers. Veltheinua 

 media, from the Cape of Good Hope, stood in the open 



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