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IV. Some Hints respecting the proper Mode of inuring Tender 

 Plants to our Climate. By the Right Hon, Sir Joseph 

 Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. £c. 



Read December 3, 1805. 



Respectable and useful as every branch of the horti- 

 cultural art certainly is, no one is more interesting to the pub- 

 lic, or more likely to prove advantageous to those who may 

 be so fortunate as to succeed in it, than that of inuring plants, 

 natives of warmer climates, to bear without covering, the 

 ungenial springs, the chilly summers, and the rigorous win- 

 ters, by which, especially for some years past, we have been 

 perpetually visited. 



Many attempts have been made in this line, and several 

 valuable shrubs, that used to be kept in our stoves, are now 

 to be seen in the open garden ; there is, however, some reason 

 to believe, that every one of these was originally the native of 

 a cold climate, though introduced to us through the medium 

 of a warm one ; as the Aucuba Japonica, the Paeonia Moutan, 

 and several others, have been in our times. 



In the case of annuals, however, it is probable that much 

 has been done by our ancestors, and something by the present 

 generation ; but it must be remembered, that all that is re- 

 quired in the case of an annual, is to enable it to ripen its 

 fruit in a comparatively cold summer, after which, we know 

 that the hardest frost has no power to injure the seed, though 



