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devoured in these woods as soon as planted ; and Periwinkle, 

 which is named amongst rabbit-proof plants, is generally eaten 

 to the ground in severe weather. Where rabbits are per- 

 mitted, the fact that they require food daily, like other creatures, 

 should be recognized. A certain portion of grass land should 

 be retained for them and managed for them; a few acres 

 might be wired round, or, surrounded with wire-netting, to the 

 exclusion of rabbits, until the approach of wintry weather, when 

 it could be thrown open for them. If this cannot be done, 

 and frosty weather sets in, when the mischief to shrubs is done, 

 trimmings of quick hedges should be scattered about, and an 

 allowance of turnips, carrots, or mangold wurzel made and doled 

 out daily in bad weather. Rabbits prefer newly-planted trees 

 and shrubs to those established. I have even had the fronds 

 of newly-planted Athyrium Filix-foemina eaten, while other 

 ferns have been untouched : certain breeds of wild rabbits 

 are much more prone to bark trees than others. The barking 

 of trees is more done by north-country rabbits. — J. S. 



A correspondent who has given much attention to the subject 

 (Salmoniceps) gives the following, as among the most rabbit- 

 proof of plants : — ' Most of the Lily family are,' he says, 

 'rejected by them, including Daffodils, Tulips, Snowdrops, 

 Snowflakes, Lilies, Day Lilies, Asphodels, and others, and 

 they cannot be too extensively planted ; but even in that tribe 

 the Crocus is greedily devoured.' 



Androssemum officinale. 

 Anemone coronaria. 

 „ japonica. 

 Arabis. 



Artemisia Abrotanum. 

 Asphodelus albus. 

 Anbrietia. 

 Berberis Darwinii. 

 Canterbury Bells. 



Cineraria maritima. 

 Columbine. 

 Common Yews. 

 Deutzia scabra. 

 Dog's-tooth Violet. 

 Elder. 

 Euonymus. 

 Fuchsia. 

 Hibiscus syriacus. 



Honesty (Lunaria). 



Iris. 



Lilies (common orange 



and white kinds). 

 Lily of the Valley. 

 Lonicera, in var. 

 Lycium barbarum. 

 Mahonia Aquifolium. 

 Monkshood. 



