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stoke in Hampshire, R. Smtthii and some others lost their leaves or became- 

 a little brown ; but the Highclere hybrids stood perfectly well. With 

 regard to the hybrids, and Indian species, Mr, Herbert's observations at 

 SpofTorth are as follows : — " My seedling Rhododendrons ft-om arboreum 

 by the rose-coloured ponticuvi have not lost the foreright shoots, though 

 the leaf is damaged, answering in that respect ray expectations, that they.' 

 would approximate to the constitution of the hardier male. R. altacle- 

 rense, from catawbiense-ponticum by arboreum, is disfigured in. some situ- 

 ations, and scarcely touched in others, but the foreright buds and flower-, 

 buds were unhurt. R. Lindsayi from the American arborescens {maximum 

 var. purpureum of Pursh), is not much injured. A plant of it taken up to 

 be forced, after the severest night, when the snow was melting, flowered 

 splendidly, and its leaves were unhurt. R. Haylocki, from catawbiense by 

 arboreum, has received no injury, and bids fair to flower profusely. R.. 

 Knightii, from the rose-coloured cinnamon leaved arboreum by caucasiczim, 

 is uninjured, and now (April 26th) in flower. R. Acklandi, from altacle- 

 rense crossed again by the scarlet arboreum, is killed near to the ground ; 

 those from Haylocki,. by arboreum, the same. The scarlet arboreum, against 

 against the front wall of the stable covered loosely with a single mat, was 

 killed nearly to the grx)und, but, having been taken up in, March, it 

 sprouted from the bottom in the stove, but died soon after. The white 

 cinnamon-leaved variety (which has stood 12 years in the middle of the 

 garden unprotected, and formed a large, round, close-leaved bush,) is killed 

 to the ground,, and it is doubtful whether it will push up again : it mea- 

 sured 18 inches round close to the ground, and its principal branch 

 was 3 inches diameter. It stood in a peaty compost, and the plant of 

 altaclerense touching it is more damaged than any of the same cross. 

 I believe that in a drier soil the cinnamon-leaved Rhododendron, whethex- 

 white or rose-coloured, would have escaped, for another plant of the white, 

 inarched on a pontico-catawbiense stock, and planted out only last summer, 

 but growing in the natural barley soil of the garden, against a stone (east) 

 wall, and covered with an old single mat full of holes, is quite unhurt, 

 and shooting early, which makes it very liable to be cut by spring frosts. 

 The mules from R. arboreum by the white maximum, and from the latter by 

 R. arboreum, were not the least hurt." R. anthopogon died at Somerford ;__ 

 R. campanulatum, without any shelter, bore a temperature of 5° below zero 

 at Highclere. At SpofForth, the deciduous R. davuricum was killed, the 

 evergreen variety flowered more abundantly than usual. 



Rheum Emodi survived everywhere. 



Rnvs Jtiglandifoliimi was killed to the ground in the Society's Garden, where- 

 it had been growing unprotected for several years. 



RiBES glaciate lived in the Society's Garden ; and at Abbotsbury. 



Spirtea argenfea lost only the points of its shoots at Brenchley, and in a 

 very bleak situation at Redleaf. The other Nepal species all proved 

 hardy. 



Stranvesia glaucescens was killed everywhere; in the Garden of the Society, 

 on a south wall, after having flourished there for 7 or 8 years. 



Viburnum cotinifoliuvi proved hardy in the Society's Garden. 



" CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 



Aponogeton distachyon proves at Garclew one of the most delicate as well 

 as fragrant aquatics, and flowers all the year. During the severest weather 

 it remained unhurt, although encrusted with ice. Seeds of it were sent 

 by Sir C. Lemon, in a letter from Edinburgh, several years ago ; they were 

 enclosed in a bit of oiled silk, and after being received were put into a 

 lump of clay and dropped near the edge of the pond, where they vegetated 

 and have grown ever since. 



Amaryllidaceous plants, although generally destroyed, escaped in some 

 places ; even at Claremont, Amaryllis Belladonna, vltfata, crocata, psit- 



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