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I. Dahoon was quite killed. ue crenata, like so many Japanese plants, 
has again proved its hardines 
In previous severe frosts a t Ke ew, Laurustinus, Arbutus and the Bay, 
(Laurus nobilis) have been killed wholesale. This year they escaped, 
notwithstandin wn eem eines e a greater degreè of cold, com- 
paratively uninjured, nor the evergreen oaks, of whi ch Kew 
ssesses many exceptionally më speed suffer any appreciable 
permanent injury. 
Bamboos.— In the Gardeners’ Chronicle (June 22, p. 762), Mr. Bean, 
the foreman of the Arboretum, has given an aecount ofithe behaviour of 
the outdoor Hon of bamboos during the winter, ollo wing 
extract summarizes the facts:—“On New Year's Day the Bamboo 
Garden at Kew Tooked prés in the same state as it had done in € 
previous August . . . . of three dozen or sokin 
wever, are sending up pis new growths from the base, and with 
all, ex or two, the visible effects of the frost will have 
disappeared in a a fow months.’ 
Our experience shows that in gardens with climatic conditions 
similar to those of Kew the following species may be expected to pass 
through even the severest winters with no more ans than a very 
temporary disfigurement of the foliage, and in some instances not even 
that. These are, pe genii the kinds R should be selected for 
planting in districts new to the cultiva of bamboos, and where it 
would be tibi. to ascertain the ab of the. poren before 
planting extensively :— 
Arundinaria nitida, M (A. khasiana, Hort). 
Phyllostachys Hen 
» min 
Pe » var. Boryana. 
j » r, punctata. 
j v kk RUE 
flexuosa, 
Bambusa palmata. 
‘Arundinaria japonica. 
» Veitchii. 
CCCCXCVI.—LEPPETT TEA. 
