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have in ten or twelve years. Indeed, in some of the situations, 

 small plants would never attain the size ; and here is where the 

 large planting has the advantage over the small : for by the 

 former method as much effect may be produced in a year or 

 two, as by the latter in twelve or fourteen years. 



No doubt, many will say, Where are such large plants to be 

 obtained ? To which I answer, Not from a nursery, or from a 

 dug shrubbery, or the plantation of a London garden ; but some 

 from a natural wood, common hedgerow copse, &c. ; such as 

 Highgate, Hornsey, Norwood, and clumps in the Regent's 

 Park, near London ; and in similar places in most parts of the 

 country. Where there are no woods from which trees can be 

 obtained, I would recommend plants of the size for common 

 planting, that is 2 ft. to 4 ft. high, according to the sorts, being 

 obtained of the nearest nurseryman, and planted in a reserve 

 plantation, at 3 ft. apart each way, for a few years, as they would 

 grow twice as fast in such a situation as they would do in a 

 park, whilst so small; and I would neither dig nor hoe the 

 ground between them, but just cut the grass and weeds, about 

 twice in the summer, with a common reaping hook, by which 

 means the earth becomes more compact, and the plants grow 

 much faster, and carry better balls when transplanted ; while 

 by digging or hoeing deep the best roots are annually killed, 

 and the plants much retarded in their growth. 



Arlington Court j near Barnstaple, Devon, Jan. 7. 1838. 



Art. V. On the Effects of the severe Winter of 183^-8, at Bicton, 

 Devonshire. By R. Glendinning, Gardener there. 



I HAVE withheld my promised notice of the ravages of last 

 winter thus late, in consequence of a multiplicity of callings ; but 

 it may be even now not uninteresting to many of your readers, 

 who may wish to draw comparative inferences of the destruction 

 effected by the condensed atmosphere of last and other winters. 

 With a view to aid such investigation, I have appended a copy 

 of my meteorological register, which may be interesting, as 

 showing the state of the weather in this south-western part of 

 England during an intensely cold month. It will tend, also, to 

 prove what we may expect to accomplish in exotic acclimatising. 

 The plants enumerated below were no way protected, and were, 

 therefore, fairly tested, as regards their respective hardiness. 



Plants killed. — Coronilla glauca. Extending over a wall 9 ft. 

 by 8 ft., planted five years, and cut off in full flower. — Begonm 

 grandiflora. Planted, five years ago, against a wall. — Ackcia. 



