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On some Exotics. 



the branches were injured, and they have always flowered in 

 great perfection. 



Some plants of the Solatium pseudo-Capsicum, or Amo- 

 mum Plinii, are also under a brick wall (but not nailed 

 against it), which have stood many years, and only a small 

 part of the very extremities of their branches has been in- 

 jured by frost. 



Myrtles of every kind (even the double blossomed and the 

 orange) do exceedingly well in the open ground, though the 

 Silver, from the richness of the soil, soon becomes plain. 



The Buddlea globosa likewise stands the climate, and 

 some of the plants are ten feec high, Spread wide, and make 

 a handsome appearance. One of them is placed in a situ- 

 ation, open to the north-east winds, where the sun cannot 

 shine during the short days, yet it has stood there since 1794, 

 and never had more than the extremities of the branches 

 hurt. 



About two miles from my house is the small sea r port town 

 of Salcombe, just between those two well-known points, the 

 Prawl and the Bolt-head, the latter of which is in the Parish 

 from whence this letter is written, a place that the sea washes 

 on three sides. Perhaps of all spots in the British isles, Sal- 

 combe is the very first for climate and shelter. The cele- 

 brated Doctor Huxham used to call it the MontpelJier 

 of England. In 1774, a large American Aloe, only twenty 

 eight years old, and which had always stood in the open 

 ground, without covering, flowered there ; it grew to the 

 height of twenty-eight feet, the leaves were six inches 

 thick, and nine feet in length, and the flowers, on forty-two 

 branches, innumerable. 



