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ЅЕРТЕМВЕЕ 13, 1919.] 
| THE HARDINESS OF PLANTS FROM 
eh are 
CENTRAL AND WESTERN CHINA, 
п 
p (vol. ХАП, pes 2 and 3 
19, jus 
= 
little =i Lien "all is said and don State 
ments 
based on one's 
easily mad 
E. he but we are too often faced with 
why and wherefore of which we 
| ^ The summer seaso grow u and its proper 
R Bpening in: Бн чей imp: ing on 
He ehaviour о of plants Bie tho г; с 
h re in Boston, Mass., where 
Otter, the autu um л, i 
Colder than in th i 
decid e British Isles, many northe 
Куу, uous woody plants. dive: better saat in 
аы - The native Cornus florida is ап 
Erie In Mr. Bowles’ list at Dawyck, Plagio- 
ermum Sepe aei е is recorded 
d as killed 
TEM bein Mouillacana as badly injured a 
i E. Neither of E die lants has ever 
ES eh course, in the British Isles 
З а far greater ety of woody 
ants out of gat than here in New land 
the Arnold Arboretum we can grow nothing 
THE GARDENERS’ 
the Journal of the Royal Horticultural 
dated Feb- 
of 
in general. e SO- ated 
1s something we know Meth 
limited experiences are 
. 69.—LIGUSTRUM SINENSE IN FLOWER. 
CHRONICLE. 
143 
from this southern ee and of broad-leaf 
evergreens — Шу з hardy save Kalmia 
latifolia, and th or four гоа natives. Our 
list of өг саан is much more restricted, 
and the only hardy Yew is the Japanese Taxus 
CUR 
T checking over Mr. Bowles’ list 
find 505 Chinese plants of my introduction lit y 
nearly all wood Of lese suffered from 
slight to fatal injuries in one or Bicis bene i 
given. Among these 86, ү y-four are recorded 
as killed, but only seven them Buddleia 
asiatica, В. vatiabilis sup Ae Clerodendron 
mandarinorum, e i "thalicitritolia, hodo- 
num, 
n nypoglaucum R. 
W: atsoni), i in all Bade cited ; 
the Rhododendrons 
being at Dawyck. These 305 plants represent 
about a Ae of gn lias s it has been my 
rivilege to introduce siege n and American 
gardens, and. in every sense of hardiness = vigor 
may [м - Their be- 
be regarded as the ec rage 
haviour during the severe winter of 916-17 
to those who desire 
d be an encourages ent 
o plani v woody plar nts in variety. 
917-18 : 
was the severest in 
to epth m five 
was not clear of frost anti afie the first 
April. The Chinese deciduous woody plants 
feet 
of A 
came through this ordeal as paier | ^ 
c did — Ie _of ao ae in ‚ Gre 
Britain, ZTOU 
I 
2 2 
а I ) if 
y € s ig s ib is comfor 
g to those who love the utdoor garden. 
Further, all concerned in the ventures which 
give them to western eig Lm feel that their 
ind bo — nces were merited. Men like 
Profes S. Sargent, Mr. "NW. J. Bean, Mr. 
J. Cdi Williams, Mr. Vicary Gibbs, Sir Harry 
(See p. 142.) 
Veitch, and a few others, Eid Will- 
о 
collection, 
fac conten 
secet gc enon E. 
Arboretum. 
Wiler, Arnold 
Publications Received.— The Gardener’s 
ине Straits рэале Singapore, 
r5 Botanie Gardens. ossil Plants 
A. C. Steward. Mage rid d. i 
Gnetales London ridg 
y 
Cambridge boum. 
Citrus Growing 
S с Ву В. A. Davis. Pretoria : 
е, Govan ment Printing and’ Stationery Office, 
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