SOS 



Camellia japo. 



nica. 



Fachsia coc- 



Solancra pseu. 

 4ucapsicum> 



Myrtles. 



Buddlea glo- 

 kosa. 



American 

 aloe. 



ISXOTIGS IN tItE OPEN AtR IN DEV0HSHIR£. 



sea, i arti led to state to you some facts, that perhaps may 

 not be wholly unworthy of notice. 



In October, 1795, a camellia japonica was planted here 

 among other shrubs in the open ground ; it has stood every 

 winter since, without the smallest shelter, thrives well, and 

 has never had a branch or leaf injured by the weather; it 

 is now about four feet high, the size of a gooseberry bush, 

 but has not flowered. 



Two plants of the fuchsia coccinea were planted about 

 four years ago under a brick wall facing the south. At 

 first the branches suffered by the frost, but they put forth 

 new shoots in the spring, with much strength, and have 

 flowered well every summer. During the last two years I 

 was absent, but I understand, that only the extremities of 

 the branches were injured, and they have always flowered 

 in great perfection. 



Some plants of solanum pseudocapsicum, or amoraum 

 Plinii, are also under a brick wall, (but not nailed against 

 it) which have stood many years, and only a small part of 

 the very extremities of their branches has been injured by 

 frost. 



Myrtles of every kind (even the doubled blossomed and 

 orange) do exceedingly well in the open ground, though 

 the silver, from the richness of the soil, soon becomes 

 plai n*. 



The buddlea globosa likewise stands the climate ; and 

 some of the plants are ten feet high, spread wide, and make 

 a handsome appearance. One of them is placed in a situ- 

 ation open to the north-east winds, where the sun cannot 

 shine during the short days, yet it has stood there since 

 1794, and never had more than the extremities of the 

 branches hurt. 



About two miles from my house is the small seaport town 

 of Salcombe, just between those two well known points, the 

 Trawl and Bolt-head> the latter of which is in the parish 

 whence this letter is written, a place that the sea washes on 

 three sides. Perhaps of all spots in the British isles, Sal* 



♦ I haveseen myrtles, as far up the channel as Weymouth, both broad 

 and narrow leaved, at least twelve or fifteen feet high, trained against walls 

 Jn the open air, as jessamine commonly is. C 



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