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THE PROTECTING TEXT. 



and principal consideration to be attended to in attempting this branch 

 of cultivation, is a selection of good flowering plants, sufficiently hardy 

 to bear at least four or five degi'ces of frost. The following is a few, to 

 which many others may be added, that will thrive nearly as well under 

 this sort of protection as under that of an ill-constructed and badly 

 managed greenhouse. 



Erica, several species ; Linum tigrmurrtj L.flavum, Phlomis Lecmut^j 

 Arbutus longifoUa, Donia glutinosa, Leptospermum, several species ; 

 Hypericum, several species ; Lavandula dentata, Polygala, several species ; 

 Buddlea salvifolia, Aster reflexus, A. argophyllus, Cistus, many species ; 

 Magnolia annoncefolia, M. conspicua, M. f meat a, Salvia, several species ; 

 Psoralea, several species ; Sutherlandia frutescens, Fuchsia, all the 

 species ; Acacia, several species ; Illicium floridanum, I. anisatum, Cliei- 

 ranthus, several species ; Teucrinum, several species ; Convolvulm, several 

 species ; Azalea indica, Daphne odora, Camellia, many yarieties ; Myrsine 

 africana. Cineraria, several species ; Myrtus communis et var., Bauera 

 rubioides, Poeonia Moutan, P. papaveracea, Indigofera, several species ; 

 Lavatera, several species ; Edwardsia, several species ; Genista, several 

 species ; Correa alba, Malva, several species ; Pittosporum, most of the 

 genus ; Mesemh^anthenium, many species ; Lonicera, several species ; 

 Hibberiia, several species ; Ononis, several species ; Agapanthus, all the 

 genus ; Verbena, several species ; Geranium and Erodium, many Cape 

 species ; Anthyllis, several species ; Medicago arborea, the Nepal Rhodo- 

 dendrons and tender English hybrids, and many others, {See Select List 

 of Cold Pit Plants.) 



In situations natiu'ally warm and sheltered a whole slu'ubbery might be 

 thus formed, and covered at no great expense. It must be, however^ 

 remarked, that it is only in favourable situations where this species of 

 cultiu'e can be supposed to succeed ; in those that are unfavourable it would 

 be folly to attempt it upon any scale. Plants so treated will be found to 

 succeed much better than those planted against a waU, which, although 

 often practised, has been experimentally proved to be not the most ehgible 

 situation in which to plant exotics ^vith a view to their being kept out of 

 doors during winter. 



