562 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 4, 1895, 
I have always believed that the 
present nursery) 
n, when 
stock, if kept health 
land, would have a better chance 
when transferred to my — — probably more 
favourable, localities. ard to the effects of 
MAGNOLIA8.—I was much interested in panoe 
the contribution to your journal, the article on the 
above plants Mr. Nicholson, was, — vee, 
rather surprised he did not mention there were two 
which is the moat gro use the most freely 
flowering. I send you by this post a flower of a 
variety he does not mention at all, viz., Lenné, men- 
tioned some time ago by Mr. al n, Kew, in Kew 
etin, and afterward Mr. Bean, of Kew, in 
your paper as flowering here, and other iculars. 
This plant flowers twice ear now, and in the 
ntumn—when t gentlemen saw it. It seeds 
Its size is har o large or its colour so 
freely. 
ood as in the autumn, but you see it is g 
J. Mills, Enys Gardens, 
now, 
d valves on 
special m and by the 
fixing of oe same ** or under the — — — 
ot, the person 
grown 
red every — a that fuel fit 
may, as poin 
of labour, 
attend to the eu requirements of the 
several ranges of Pine-apple houses and pits, except 
ing during the _ ing and re-arranging of the — 
u spr 2 Bee A a peal when assistanc 
— 
n mon ey also 
command a ready sale in — aad — in Leam- 
p 
p 
a 
— 
h a capital o 
tart the business indicated on 
a good, sound wot per: whicb, I have no doubt, 
would 8 a first-rate investment if well and skil- 
fully managed. H. ard 
THE EFFECT OF TE LATE FROST ON SHRUBS 
wa WT Bi 
tly I bad re 
west climate over the south-east, now Teign- 
mouth well, having lived in my boyhood at Trafalgar 
Cottage during the memorable winter of 1 A 
that time my exper ience of matters appertaining to 
mber its 
must have withstood 
a Clianthus puniceus growing under a verandah, 
which lived for so after that — and it 
was only protected with a garden mat dur 
Mrs. Baring y arn — grandmother of the author, 
Rev. Sabine ould, who re 
that time, was — 2 plants, 5 * this fondness 
was no doubt shared by her bg os Mr. Joseph 
Sabine, at one time tary to the Royal Horti- 
cul Society. This garden ned several 
very uncommon and their continued pre- 
servation was neal due od the be 
win 
3 spot escaped, possib bly for the same 
er cannot be held that the 2 
pe the south-west of —4 and bas been so favoured, 
a Wi. ce ae ee e to other evon- 
shire, he would have found that many acres of the 
common illed to the ground, and 
no prettier sight an be — in these islands than 
rry, 
is far am ‘bright and pure in its n any 
of this lovely family of W shrubs. 
Devonshire * — 
Cupressus macrocarpa an 
e of the Cry er The needles of Pinus 
sohani and Abies Pinsapo, and other large-growing 
Conifers, are browne t and wind, almost, I 
fear, beyond recovery. — ponticum is 
sadly punished ; Laurels are ground, and 
even the comm r 
b Sev 2 —.— in the Western 
m caused in De 
— 
p On Se 17. 
miles of Plymouth a frost that killed V Vopitahi 
arrows, Kidney Beans, and “tor p while London 
perg aan until abel October 18; and on November 
of the same year I saw in "the Isle of Wight 
aaa bunches of Dahlias which were „con- 
sidering the lateness of the season. d " these 
ew me * in that further informati 
will be contributed fo shew * vegetatio . — 
in favoured s e mbs of Teignmouth 
or Torquay do not give pW r re ntatio 
— — s a ment winter on the tion 
e south- 1 d. 
8 gland, J. W, Moorman, 
of 1 * IN 6 n the list 
remarkable trees and descri in Stratt’s 
Sylva Britannicus, 1 (reprinted in your colamns 
at p. 433, on —— 22), No. 21, Abbot’ 
Popla gn Dot's Willow, 
No. 22, Blac r, are ass and 
Ed nd’s. The last-name d still — St, 
Abbot's Willow is » but the 
gate be idge, in Eastga 
leon’s Willow, an 1 have been taken 
ting from the celebrated Willow hed whi bon 
over Napoleon’ Bea pd 
i 
in length. 
— St. Edmund’s by the — ate 
aving admired a very which standa 2 
upon the right-hand — ‘a the — It is 
way of St. 
‘avn 
reservation. In the 
and having the — s of very great ; and 
in Culford Park, the £ Len 
very ancient Oak, — 
In R 
dence of W. R. J. Rashbrooke, Eeq., 
uth fr Bary, is 
moat, and where 
— — court in the y 
her 
been planted 
are possibly few, if any, * exam 
a eta n Cullum’s 
> 
3 
5 
$ 
ad 
>: 
3 the same 
— 
25 
aff 
m 
one hundred years. : 
—A fine 
this — — ig er hybrid, 
forecourt garden of my ho Ealing, 
be almost, or quite, killed pero It was 
against a wall, but formed & * 
head, and for several years it had been # y 
f admiration in April and May, when covered 
ite 1 om yellow racemes of fi 
