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winter. A plant, however, against a wall at Penrice Castle sustained no 

 material injury. 



Araucaria Domheyi (A. hnhricata of the Gardens) was but little injured any- 

 where in the midland counties. At Kew, where it was protected, at Drop- 

 more, and Redleaf, it was but slightly affected ; in the Society's Garden, 

 unprotected, the bottom branches were killed, but it was not hurt materially. 

 Mr. Gowen has furnished me with the following fact, concerning this in- 

 teresting species : — ' There are three Araucarias planted out at Highclere, 

 and each about a foot high. They are all nearly upon the same level in the 

 pleasure ground, which is a plateau of thin soil upon a substratum of hard 

 chalk, on which is overlaid a bed of plastic clay, more or less thick. The 

 height of the plateau is about 600 feet above the level of the sea, lying to 

 the north of a very extensive and elevated tract of chalk downs ; the climate 

 is cold, and the winter atmosphere damp and foggy, and extremely liable to 

 wind. Two of these plants are in open spaces in a large grove of lofty 

 trees, and, of course, sheltered from wind. These suffered last winter, 

 having had their foliage much injured. The third is on the open lawn, un- 

 sheltered and exposed to every wind that blows. This plant did not sustain 

 any injury from cold, although the thermometer in its vicinity was down to 

 3° below zero. It may here be worthy of remark, that the thermometer 

 was suspended in a bush of Rhododendron campanulatum within the grove 

 above alluded to. Not a leaf or bud of the rhododendron was injured, 

 and it flowered beautifully ia the early spring. It is obvious that the Arau- 

 caria Dombeyi is perfectly hardy, but it is impatient of damp, prefers an open 

 situation, and is liable to have its foliage injured by moisture.' At Belsay, 

 unprotected, it was not injured in even a single leaf j at this place it is 7 or 

 8 feet high, and still retains on its stem, at the surface of the ground, the 

 leaves which it had when a small plant. A. brasiliensis was destroyed almost 

 everywhere ; at Dropmore, it was protected by a thick covering, and at 

 Woburn, with double boards, and a lining 3 feet thick of fern : at the foi'mer 

 place it afterwards formed buds within four inches of the ground. 



Aristotelia Macqui, a plant which had survived many winters in most parts 

 of England, was generally killed ; but at Carclew, although it had been 

 killed to the ground in the winter of 1830-31, it sustained but little damage 

 this season. 



Azara dentata was killed on a south wall in the Society's Garden. 



Berberis empetrifoUa, and dulcis, proved hardy near London, and elsewhere; 

 even in Nottinghamshire. In some cases they were cut to the ground, but 

 they sprang up again freely. 



BoussiNGAULTiA baselloides was observed by Mr. Niven, in the Glasnevin 

 Garden, to have remarkably hardy roots. They were exposed near the sur- 

 face of the ground without any covering, and pushed again vigorously after 

 the frost. 



Brugmansia. Neither species appears to have stood anywhere, except in 

 Mr„ Fox's warm garden at Falmouth. 



Calceolaria. Some hundreds of shrubby varieties, which had stood at 



, Claremont in the open borders from 4 to 5 years, were not only killed, 

 but the best shrubby sorts, in a brick pit covered with a glass (but no mat), 

 were also destroyed. C. viscosissima and integrifoUa angnstifoUa were killed 

 in the Society's Garden. At Spofforth, several survived; C. integrifoUa, and 

 sessilis, were destroyed at this place in a conservatory, but C. viscosa survived 

 in the same situation. C. riigosa and integrifoUa were killed even at Fal- 

 mouth, after having grown without protection for five or six years, 



Cestrum Parqui was killed at Sketty, and in the Society's Garden, along with 

 C. noctumtim. 



Chlidanthus fragrans escaped, in a hothouse border, at Glasgow. 



CoLi.ETiA Ephedra survived at Liverpool. In the Society's Garden, the only 

 species which escaped was C. horrida, and that was not much damaged. At 

 Belsay, C. serratifolia was only killed to the ground. 



