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very little the worse, growing luxuriantly and flowering beautifully last 

 summer. Last winter we covered them with Laurel branches, tying them 

 closely over them. This summer they are growing a little and flowering 

 very well, but look a little rusty. Tea Roses on the same wall are very much 

 crippled; all old wood being killed last winter, only young shoots were left. 

 Several Standards were also killed, but there were no deaths among the 

 dwarfs. 



In the herbaceous borders, Stocks, Wallflowers, and Pentstemons, were 

 among the killed of the winter of 1878-79. Last winter all of these escaped. 

 No doubt the snow lying so long on them was the cause of their death during 

 the first of the winters. 



Vegetables in kitchen garden also sufiered more the first winter than the 

 last one. 



The soil here, except in some parts of the garden, is a very stifE, wet, ad- 

 hesive clay ; the shrubs in all cases, and also several kinds of Coniferse, grown 

 in. that kind cf soil, thrive very well in it. 



The lowest temperatures for 1878-79, after February, and for that month, 

 19 degrees of frost, Fahrenheit, on the 18th and 20th. On the 14th of 

 March, 12 degrees. In April we had three nights in succession, I7th, I8th, 

 19th, at 2 degrees ; and on the 3rd of May, we had 2 degrees. 



For the winter of 1879-80 we had in December 30 and 28 degrees two 

 nights in succession, on the 3rd and 4th. In January the thermometer only 

 got down to freezing on the 28th February ; on the 9th, we had 7 degrees ; 

 only getting down to freezing two other nights, 13th and 27th. March 9th, 

 we had 3 degrees; 18th, we had 5 degrees; and on 19th, we had 7 degrees. 

 April, on the 23rd, we had 4 degrees. 



We had no deaths among fruit trees. Peaches and Apricots are growing 

 very luxuriantly this summer. There is no Peach crop out of doors— but a 

 fair crop of Apricots. Apples and Pears are a very poor crop both last year 

 and this. Small fruits were very plentiful both years. 



Tester Gardens. By Mr Alexaiojeb Shearer. 



With our high and cold climate here, we have never planted many of the 

 more tender trees. We stand 425 feet above the level of the sea. The 

 winter of 1878 did not do us any harm in regard to any of the trees ; and 

 even the last winter was not so bad, as at some other plases. Certainly the 

 Laurestinus was killed to the ground, as well as Aucuba Japoniea. The 

 Garry a elli2)tica stood well enough, and none of the Pinuses were touched. 

 Eoses did not grow much all the summer, and though killed to the ground, 

 they have all grown stronger this year. I cannot say that we lost one by the 

 frost. A Gloire de Dijon on an east wall without any protection, was not the 

 least injured. Fuchsia Eiccartoni stood out uninjured, with a slight covering 

 of straw-litter on the bushes. On the other hand. Globe Artichokes were 

 nearly all killed. Those left are only giving fruit at this date, instead of in 

 the end of August, and in September. I did not cut over a dozen of Broccoli 

 axtd Cauliflower during the winter of 1879 and spring of 1880, out of 800 



