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tacina,formosissima, and several others, were uninjured. Crinum cnpense, 

 at the edge of a pond, escaped injury at Carclew, as also did Nerine undu- 

 latd at the same station. But at Sketty they were mostly killed, and not 

 one of them flowered in the succeeding summer. A mule Nerine, with the 

 bulbs above ground, was uninjured at SpofForth. 



Of Gladiolus and Ixia, many species only covered with about an inch of 

 rotten fern, survived at Claremont ; Gladiolus psittachius at Carclew. 

 All the mule Gladioli, Sparaxis pendula, which were covered with 

 leaves, together with Watsonia Mariana, and Gladiolus psittachius, 

 which were unprotected, were unharmed at SpofForth. Mr. Herbert 

 considers the latter to be as hardy as a crocus, but impatient of a hot 

 summer. But, on the other hand, at Glasgow, most kinds of Cape bulbs 

 suffered, or perished, although in a cold frame covered with mats. 



Anomatheca cruenta. A small bed of this beautiful plant was in front of the 

 greenhouse at Carclew ; it was supposed to be dead, but was left undis- 

 turbed, and again made its appearance after the winter. 



Albuca major and minor, EucoMis punctata, Tritonia uvaria, pumila, and 

 media, survived in a border at Claremont, protected by a thin covering of 

 fern. 



OxALis, 20 species in a border, with the tuberous Pelargoniums hereafter 

 noticed, stood well at Claremont. O. Bowiei was killed at Dropmore. 



Cacalia Kleinii, an old plant, which had stood out for several years, was 

 killed at Sketty. 



DiosMA amcena, trained against the front of the greenhouse at Carclew, was 

 partly killed ; the leaves were unhurt on some of the branches. 



EcHiuM giganteum survived at Binstead, in the Isle of Wight, in high and dry 

 situations ; but it died in low grounds. 



Halleria lucida, trained against the front wall of the stove at Carclew, was 

 very little hurt ; its young shoots, and those which projected from the wall, 

 were killed, but it broke again very strong. In Mr. Fox's garden at Fal- 

 mouth it grows freely as a shrub. 



YCIUM afrum. This plant survived at Carclew on an east wall, while Car- 

 michaelia australis on one side of it, and Escallonia glandidosa on the 

 other, were hurt. 



Myrsine africana, which had stood 23 years against the front wall of the 

 stables at SpofForth, having been planted out in 1815, was as much injured 

 as it was when the glass fell to 10° many years ago, but it was not killed ; 

 one branch, however, alone remained with green leaves, and the rest were 

 dead. 



Mesembryanthemums, which usually survive the Cornish winters, and flower 

 freely during summer, were all killed at Carclew. 



Olea fragrans was killed against a south wall at Norwich ; slightly injured at 

 Carclew. 



Ornithogalum caudatum, with the bulb above ground, was injui'ed, but sur- 

 vived at SpofForth. 



Pelargonium _/?at)zwtt, triste, lobatum, had been planted at Claremont in a warm 

 border for seven years, and all survived unhurt, though only covered with 

 rotten fern to the depth of an inch, or thereabouts ; there were also several 

 other tuberous rooted species uninjured. Mr. M'Intosh finds, that planting 

 out is the best way to grow all this tribe, as well as most bulbs, which are 

 not evergreen, or retain their leaves. P. triste lived unprotected at Abbots- 

 bury. A large plant of the ivy-leaved pelargonium, 16 or 17 years old, was 

 killed in a conservatory at SpofForth. 



Richardia africana, or Calla cctMopica, with its stem two inches deep in the 

 pond, was killed at Sketty, though it received no material injury from the 

 preceding winter. At Cheshunt, Mr. Harrison has had two large plants in 

 a pond for nine years, without either care or protection; they bloom every 

 year, and were not in the least affected by this frost. The plant proved 

 equally hardy at Carclew, both at the edge of a pond, and in the open border. 



