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a pretty large number of green-house plants, which had 

 withstood the winter at that place. On reading these several 

 articles, I was led to trouble you with the i^vf lines in 

 Vol. VI. p. 229., dated Clowance, Cornwall, soliciting *'froni 

 some one or more of your numerous correspondents, a list, 

 or lists, of such exotics, indigenous to warmer climates than 

 our own, as, upon trial, had been found to endure our most 

 sevei-e winters without protection." However, as nothing of 

 the kind has yet appeared in your pages, will you permit me 

 once more to endeavour to draw the attention of your readers 

 to this subject ? as I cannot but think that, if a list of the 

 kind were produced, it would be valuable. 



It would be invidious in me to attempt to give even a hint 

 on the arrangement of such a list or catalogue ; as your 

 Hortus Britanniciis is a sufficient evidence that this is not 

 wanted from any one. A very few pages in your Magazine 

 would be sufficient for the purpose, and there are doubtless 

 many of your readers who have been practically engaged in 

 making experiments upon exotics by endeavouring to accli- 

 matise them. It, therefore, only remains for them to send you 

 the result of their experiments, by giving you the names of 

 those they have succeeded in, with such particulars as may 

 be deemed necessary respecting any particular plant or 

 plants; as, namely, whether grown in the open ground, or 

 trained against a wall, &c. ; not omitting the county they are 

 growing in, as there may be many that will stand out through 

 the winter in our southern and western counties, that will 

 not in the counties which lie north ; and thus, under your 

 arrangement, we might hope shortly to have the pleasure of 

 perusing such a list as I conceive to be very desirable. 



Should this article meet with a favourable reception on 

 your part, and be in any wise instrumental in bringing others 

 to the point in question, I shall be happy to become a con- 

 tributor, by sending you a list of such acclimatised plants as 

 have come under my observation in the western part of 

 England, which might be incorporated with those you may 

 receive from other persons. I am. Sir, yours, &c. — T. 

 Rutger. Shortgrove, Essex, August 24. 1833. 



In relation to this subject, see the articles referred to in the 

 index to Vol. VIII. of this Magazine, under the title " Ac- 

 climatising half-hardy exotics to the seasons of Britain," and 

 some remarks by E. B., in p. 24-5. of the present (IXth) 

 Volume ; and a consideration of Mr. Munro's suggestions, in 

 the present Number, p. B55,, on the causes* of the particular 

 disease in the larch, which he describes, may be applied to 

 the present subject, in useful admonition to the experimenter 



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