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Anemone vitifolia, and several other rather tender plants of this order, were 

 uninjured at Sketty and Spofforth. 



Benthamia fragifera generally perished in the North ; at Belsay Castle and 

 Wobiirn, it is reported as pushing from the root ; at Sketty and Penllar- 

 gai'e, in South Wales, and at Carclew, where it is planted in the woods, and 

 promises to be a fine underwood shrub, it only lost its leaves. It also lived 

 at North Stoneham. 



Berberis aristata, and asiatica, had their leaves destroyed generally, and in 

 some cases their new shoots, but they did not otherwise suffer. In the 

 Society's Garden, B. anstata was injured in a peat bed, but not where 

 planted in common soil. 



Clematis viontana proved hardy everywhere against walls. 



CoLUTEA nepalensis survived everywhere. 



CoTONEASTER microphylla was much injured, but not killed in any place ; C. 

 affinis died at Norwich to within 6 inches of the graft, but was unhurt In 

 Cornwall ; in the Society's Garden, C. ajfinis, frigida, microphyUa, and Icevis, 

 were greatly damaged, while C. rotiindifolia,mt,mmularia, and acuminata, suf- 

 fered comparatively little. 



Desmodium nutans was killed upon a south wall in the Society's Garden, after 

 having survived 6 or 7 previous winters. 



EuoNYMUS echinatus, and sarmentostis, were killed to the ground at Liverpool, 

 but E. Hamiltonianus did not suffer at that place ; the latter was killed to 

 the ground in the Society's Garden, but sprang up again with vigour. 



HiPPOPHAE conferta was uninjured at Sketty, and in the Society's Garden. 



HovENiA acerba, of which a fine old plant existed on a south wall in the 

 Society's Garden, was killed to the ground, but shot up again weakly. 



Juniper us reciirva, a beautiful species, was uninjured eyery where. 



Jasminum revolutum was killed in the Society's Garden ; the plant was of 

 large size, and had stood 8 or 10 winters ; it was" scarcely injured at 

 Owston against a wall, and not at all at Sketty. J. Wallichianum was cut 

 to the ground at Spofforth and Liverpool, but in the Society's Garden, it 

 was damaged against a south wall, and in the open border was killed to the 

 ground. J. heterophyllum was killed to the ground on a south wall in the 

 Society's Garden, but sprang up again. 



PiNUS excelsa was uninjured everywhere. P. longifolia died everywhere, how- 

 ever much protected, except at Carclew, where it has been exposed for se- 

 veral years, and seems quite hardy. 



Lagerstrcemia indica, trained to a south wall, was killed to the ground in 

 the Society's Garden, but sprang up again. 



Leycesteria formosa sustained no injury in the Society's Garden, and at 

 Glasgow. 



Pyrus variolosa was killed at Norwich, and in the Society's Garden, in the 

 open ground; but not against a wall. P. vestita was unaffected by the 

 cold. 



Rhododendron arboreuvi. The red variety was killed near London, at 

 Sketty, at Stoneham in Hampshire, at Owston, where it had been newly 

 planted, was nearly killed at Singleton, was untouched at Carclew. R. ar- 

 boreiim album was uninjured at Sketty, but killed at Stoneham, and 

 destroyed to the ground at Dropmore. Of the hybrid varieties, Smithii 

 and another were a little injured at Singleton, more at Woburn, Spofforth, 

 and Norwich, and still more at Stoneham. In the Society's Garden they 

 were all, without exception, killed to the ground, but shot up again from 

 the root. The variety called Nobleanum was uninjured at Norwich. 

 Mr. Walker found that the hybrids between R. arboreum and R. cataiu- 

 hiense or caucasiciim stood well at Calderstone, so did R. altaclerense. 

 Mr. John Wilson states that at Osberton in Nottinghamshire, where the 

 thermometer fell to 2° below zero, the hybrid rhododendrons, of which 

 there is an extensive collection, although much injured, all recovered and 

 pushed forth new buds vigorously. In -Mr, Garnier's gai-den, at Bishop- 



