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Mcittvl willi tlu'ir very diili-rent hualilii's whon wild ; tlie loriiuT 

 luMiifj: exposoli ti) the severe eold of south eastern Kurope, while 

 the latter, ahliou^h wild in Irehmd, is ni'.)re peculiar to the west 

 of KurojM*. Coiuieeted with tliis is the important fact, that 

 A. Andraihne inarclu'd ij[)on A. Tnedo, in wiiich londition it is 

 usually sold in the nurseries, is uidit for j)lantin|z, hecause of the 

 lenderness of its stock. By takini; care that plants of A. Andrachne, 

 and also A. h\brida, are on tlieir own roots, two fine evergreens 

 may he considered secured to the t^ardens of the |;z;reater j)art of 

 Kniiland. That there should be a variety of the Olive hardy 

 eiu)Ui;h to hear — 1|" without the slightest injury, may be a fact 

 of vahie to the Olive grower in many parts of Kurope, and ren- 

 ders it probable that this useful tree may be protitably raised for 

 its oil in any part of Ireland. To the fruit i^rower tlic hardiness 

 of the (ireen Ischia Fig is a valuable fact, for it will enable this 

 variety to be cultivated much further to the north, than it has 

 hitherto been tliought possible to possess Figs as open standards. 

 Tlie Alep])() Pine seems to have generally perished ; but Finns 

 brutia, a Calabrian species very like in habit, seems to be hardy. 

 There has been some difference of opinion as to the comparative 

 hardiness of the species of Cerasus called Laurels" in this 

 country. The fact is now established beyond doubt that C. lusi- 

 tanica, the Portugal laurel, is much more hardy than C. Lauroce- 

 rasus, the common laurel. This could not have been expected 

 from what are reported to be the natural habits of those two 

 species ; the former inhabiting the mountains of Portugal and 

 Madeira, where the climate is softened by the mild air of the 

 Atlantic, and the latter being found on the mountains of the 

 most eastern parts of Europe and of i'ersia, where the winters 

 are more rigorous than in western countries. The death of the 

 Sweet Bay and the Laurustinus, on the other hand, corresponds 

 with what might be anticipated from their inhabiting only the 

 warm rifts of calcareous rocks in the south of Europe, where, 

 if their branches are ever killed, their roots are secured against 

 all chances of destruction. 



" On Cape plants there is httle to observe further than that all 

 the shrubby species are evidently too tender to deserve cultiva- 

 tion, without protection, north of Cornwall and Devonshire. It 

 is, however, satisfactory to find that the hardskinned Cape Bulbs 

 and tuberous Pelargonia will live in the open border, with only 

 the aid of a covering of fern-leaves, provided the border is well 

 drained ; and the undoubtedly hardy habits of Aponogeton dis- 

 tachyon, and Richardia africana, have secured to us two addi- 

 tional handsome aquatics. 



The low southern latitudes of South America have furnished 

 a few accessions to hardy collections, among which the Araucaria 

 Dombeyi is the most interesting for the possessors of parks and 

 large gardens, and it has now become an object of some national 



