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seems useless to attempt to naturalize New llollaiul plants iu 

 the midland and luuiliern parts of Kngland. On the coast of 

 South Wales, where the thermometer did not fall helow -f 15°, 

 Li^ptospermum hini«;erum is the only species which appears to 

 have sur\ ivcd ; at Carclew, in Clornwall, where the climate is 

 i^iMierally very mild, alth(»uj;h tie temperature is reported 

 to ha\e reached -f 1'2", almo-t all the New Holland and Van 

 Diemen's Land plants either perished outright or were irrecover- 

 ahiy dainai;c(l ; the only e\(ej)tions hcii;^ Acacia stricta, allinis, 

 Sophora. and dilVusa, ( "allitris cuprcssifonnis, (lorra'a alba, Cal- 

 listemon lanceolatus, (Jrevillca rosmarinifolia, Lcpt()si)ermum 

 amhi|:;uum, and Sollya heterophylla. It is only in some favoured 

 spots, and in the mild cliniate of Ireland, that any considerable 

 number of Australian plants have proved really hardy, and even 

 in those places a great many species died. 



" Upon the plants of Ncir Zealand there is little to remark, 

 except that there seems no i)r()bability of their (in many cases) 

 accjuiring a permanent station in these islands. Phormium tenax, 

 the New Zealand llax ])lant, escaped in a swamp at Carclew, a 

 circumstance that should not be overlooked by those who hope 

 to make it a subject of common cultivation in the milder parts 

 of Ireland. 



Of the natural habits of Ch'nicse plants little is known with 

 precision. Many, no doubt, are obtained from the northern pro- 

 vinces where the winter cold is severe 3 and it is to be presumed 

 that they are what we find hardy enough to sustain a tempera- 

 ture of — 4^", or lower. Among these are especially deserving 

 of notice the beautiful Cunninghamia sinensis Amygdalus pu- 

 mila ; Fraxinus lentiscifolia, a forest tree of the most ornamental 

 character ; Glycine sinensis ; Juniperus chinensis, a valuable 

 evergreen • the noble Yu-lan, or iNIagnolia conspicua ; Koelreu- 

 teria paniculata, a fine deciduous tree ; tree Peeonies ; Taxodium 

 sinense, and the magnificent climber Bignonia grandiflora. Of 

 the Chinese Azaleas, A. indica alba proved the most hardy. One 

 scarcely knows in what light to regard the unexpected fact of Illi- 

 cium anisatum having escaped at Claremont, where it was 

 exposed to a temperature of — 1^° ; but it is worthy of notice, 

 that I. floridanum is reported in so many places to be hardy, 

 that no doubt can remain upon that point at least. The fact of 

 Pittosporura Tobira not having suffered in South Wales more 

 than Arbutus Unedo, is important, and renders it desirable that 

 this handsome evergreen should become the subject of experi- 

 ments as to its hardy qualities elsewhere. Thea viridis stood 

 where T. Bohea was killed. 



Such Japanese plants as have been the subject of experi- 

 ment, have, in the greatest number of cases, afforded evidence 

 that the vegetation of the colder parts of that region is well 

 suited to our own. If Eriobotrya japonica, Ligustrum lucidum. 



