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any English garden, during summer, but not survive the 

 winter, as in the above instance in Devonshire, and in the 

 counties adjoining, where the mildness of the winters is a fact 

 familiar to most. The following proofs of this are so truly 

 of the gardening kind as to merit being quoted ; they are 

 taken from The Panorama of Torquay^ a Descriptive and 

 Historical Sketch of the District comprised between the Rivers 

 Dart and Teign ,- hy Octavian Blemtt ; 2d edit. 1832, p. 55. 



" The following lists of plants, grown as hardy exotics in 

 the gardens of Torquay, afford a good illustration of the 

 influence of this climate on the various productions of orna- 

 mental horticulture : — 



" First List. — Agapanthus umbellatus. Azalea indica 

 phoenicea, A. Zedifolia Hook., Macleaya cordata*, Cereus 

 johyllanthoides. Cassia capensis, Helianthemum canum, H. 

 formosum, Citrus Medica, the lemon ; C. Limonum Dec, the 

 citron ; Rochea odoratissima, Dracocephalum canariense, 

 Fuchsm coccinea, F. gracilis. Gladiolus cardinalis, Alons6« 

 linearis, Hibbertm volubilis, Jasmlnum grandiflorum, J. 

 revolutum, Magnoh'a consplcua, M. obovata, Eriobotrya 

 japonica, Metrosideros floribundus, Maurandy« Barclayawa', 

 Petunia nyctaginiflora, Pittosporum Tobira, jRubus rosae- 

 foliusj Ferbena bonariensis, V. chamaedrifolia, Vestm Zycio- 

 ides. 



"Second List. — Agave americana, ^'ster capensis [?], 

 Bign^nm capreolata, B. Pandor^g \_Tecoma australis]; Cal- 

 ceolaria corymbosa, Herbert/aW, andplantaginea; Calla [Ri- 

 chardm] sethiopica, Matthiola tristis, Cineraria /)opulif61ia, 

 Cistus roseus, C. incanus, Coronilla glauca, Fuchsza /ycioides, 

 F. macrophylla, F. macrocarpa [?], Alonsoa incisifcMia, 

 iaurus Camphora, lAnvLxa arboreum, Magnolm purpurea, 

 Afarrubium candidum [probably M. Pseudo-Z)ictamnus, or 

 M. candidissimum], Psebnia Moiitan, Punica Granatum, 

 (Salvia biflora, S. purpurea, Ferbena chamaedrifolia, Yucca 

 ttloifolia, Y. gloriosa. 



* As a fact illustrative of the sentiment, " nothing venture, nothing 

 have," or, in other words, that useful knowledge is gained by bold experi- 

 ments, it may be worth the space to notice, even at this late date, that De 

 CandoUe, in his Systema, vol. ii. p. 92., states that, up to the time of his 

 visiting the English gardens, the French usually kept this plant (whose old 

 name is Bocconia cordata Willd.) in glass-houses, where it grew but lan- 

 guidly : his words are : " hanc speciem in caldariis ssepius languide servatam, 

 lajtissime vigentem sub dio vidi in plurimis hortis Anglicis, et usque ad 

 Norwich in horto Hookeriano." The season, however, at which he visited 

 England did not enable him to observe and to state, that, although this 

 plant is in England grown as a hardy one, its first shoots are almost every 

 spring killed by frost. — J. D. 



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