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Laurus noUlis was generally killed about London. At Claremont, trees 25 

 feet high were all destroyed to the surface of the ground, or entirely. But 

 at Dropmore, a large plant 20 feet high, with branches spreading 15 feet 

 horizontally, which was to all appearance quite dead in the early part of 

 summer, produced young shoots very near the top, and seems likely to re- 

 cover in the course of next season. Professor Henslow mentions a fine 

 plant in a garden at Ely having sustained very little injury ; and even at 

 Cambridge, although plants were damaged, the mischief was not serious. At 

 SpofForth, some branches were killed, some not. At Sketty, the leaves 

 were less injured than those of the common laurel ; this species flourishes 

 remarkably in that neighbourhood ; Mr. Dillwyn mentions a noble speci- 

 men of it, in the garden at Margam, (a mansion of Mr. Talbot's, near the 

 sea, about 14 miles distant from Sketty,) which, on being accurately mea- 

 sured about two years ago, was found to be 61 feet 6 inches high ; but it 

 was considerably injured by this winter. 



LiNUM fiavum, against a south wall, was not injured at Norwich, nor at 

 Spofforth in the open border. Of L. tauricuvi, grown upon a rock at 

 Dropmore, some survived, but others were killed. 



Melia AzedarncJi was injured at Owston, but not severely. 



Medicago arborea was killed both at London and Sketty, though in a very 

 sheltered spot in the latter place. 



MoRus alba, and its varieties, were much damaged in the Society's Garden. 



Myrtus communis, which survives the winter without difficulty about Lon- 

 don, perished this year; it was much disfigured at Carclew, and destroyed 

 in most other places, but Mr. Dillwyn observed, that the broad leaved 

 variety, in no part of his grounds, was more injured than some of the com- 

 mon evergreens which grew by its side, and till last winter it had hardly 

 suffered at all since the winter of ISIS-l-i ; the small leaved variety, which 

 never appeared to be equally hardy, was, however, killed, or nearly so. At 

 Owston, all the bushes were killed down, but shot up again. 



Nerium Oleander. Of two plants, which had thriven without protection 

 since 1834, one was killed by the winter of 1836-7, and the other last 

 winter, at Sketty. 



Olive. Of the common cultivated kind, almost every specimen was killed 

 to the ground, or more frequently wholly destroyed, in England ; even in 

 the warm garden of Abbotsbury, in Dorsetshire, this occurred, but in the 

 Garden of the Society, a hardy variety, obtained from Nikita in the Crimea, 

 through the good offices of Mr. Buckatzsch of Guben, sustained no injury. 

 Olca eurofcea var. bitxifolia is also reported by Mr. Dillwyn to have sur- 

 vived without protection at Penrice Castle, without having been injured. 



Narcissus (Corbularia) serotinus, in a dry border at Spofforth, had pushed 

 its leaves before the frost, and they remained unhurt ; none of the species 

 belonging to the Daffodil section were touched ; but those of the Hermione 

 section, from Italy and Malta, suffered very much. 



Paliurus acideatus had its branches much injured at Cambridge, but is not 

 mentioned in any other of the reports as having suffered j except at 

 Glasgow. 



Phillyreas. Of the species of this genus, the oleifolia, rosviarinifolia, and 

 other entire leaved species, proved most delicate; the serrated kinds lived 

 as far north as Owston. At Claremont, P. latifolia hardly suffered at all, 

 and, in the Society's Garden, this species and P. obliqna proved perfectly 

 hardy. 



PiNus. The only European species of this genus which sustained any injury, 

 was F. halepeiisis ; in the Society's Garden, a fine old specimen 15 feet 

 high, originally presented to the collection by Sir Charles Monck, Bart., 

 was entirely destroyed ; but at Belsay Castle, this species, in a high and dry 

 situation, was not injured. P. bridia, a species very near P. halepensis, 

 stood without protection in the Society's Garden. At Dropmore, P. cana- 

 rieiisis was much injured, but its trunk and old branches were saved. 



