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MY GARDEN. 



where exposed. All kinds of currants are uninjured where covered 

 by leaves, but where exposed are killed. Strawberries are in great 

 part ruined. The Black Prince, about half-grown, the Keen's Seedling, 

 well formed, the British Queen, and the Alpine strawberries, have 

 been frozen ; probably later flowerers, and later kinds not in flower, 

 have escaped. The first fruit of the raspberries is frozen, but the 

 blossoms and buds are uninjured. Figs, plums, peaches, nectarines, 

 apricots, apples, pears, and strawberries in the orchard-house are 

 safe, and strawberries now ripe in cold frames escaped injury. The 

 havoc in the vegetable garden has been equally great. French beans 

 and scarlet runners are destroyed. Perhaps, however, the latter may 

 shoot again. This is a misfortune which the cottager will especially 

 feel. Broad beans, November planted, which have withstood the 

 last winter, have their young pods frozen, and in some cases the stalks 

 are bent over as though broken. The spring-sown, now in flower, 

 are similarly damaged. Peas November-planted, and yielding their 

 first crop this day, show marks of frost, and young pods of Sangster's 

 No. I, spring-planted, are completely destroyed; Champions are also 

 injured in the haulm, but all later crops are safe. Potato plants, 

 from i\ feet high, with incipient tubers, to those of the first growth, are 

 completely destroyed, and also those grown in frames, and now 

 ripe, have had their leaves frozen, the glass having been removed. 

 The tubers in this case are perfect. The early cauliflowers some- 

 what flag, but lettuces and all other crops ' are safe. The curious 

 new vegetable, the Raphanns caudatus of Japan, has defied the 

 freezing blast. In the flower-garden, pelargoniums, fuchsias, heliotropes, 

 , are destroyed in open spots ; and dahlia roots, which withstood the 

 severe winter, and have since sprouted about a foot high, are cut 

 down like the potato-haulm. Azaleas in great beauty last Thursday, 

 and many kinds of English orchids in flower, have had their blooms 

 utterly destroyed. Alpine plants remain intact. Roses have remarkably 

 escaped ; even the tea-scented, the Noisette, and monthly roses show 

 no signs of damage. The hybrid perpetuals, now budding, and the 

 Scotch, commencing to flower, have not felt the cold. Of English ferns, 



