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XLIX. Remarks on some Exotics planted in the open Air, in 

 Devonshire. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Abraham 

 Hawkins, Esq. 



Read December 3, 1811. 



Sir, 



Your kindness in sending to me a few seeds of the Dahlia 

 Sambucifolia, in order to see how far that plant might be 

 naturalised in Devonshire, surely demands, from time to time, 

 an account of their success. And though I have not abso- 

 lutely ascertained the fact desired, yet the experiment thus 

 far, seems to proceed satisfactorily. As seeds from a distant 

 part are said to be better than our own produce, I enclose 

 you a few from a plant which has hitherto resisted the frost 

 in the open air. 



Though much injury was done to many of the exotics in 

 this neighbourhood, by the rigour of last winter, which, for 

 the short time it lasted, proved the most severe within me- 

 mory, the plants mentioned in my letter, which appeared in 

 the Horticultural Transactions for 1810 ,* were, in no instance, 

 destroyed, and scarcely, in any, much hurt ; but there is one 

 thing remarkable, that numbers of the Platanus Occidentals 

 have perished ; and though I lost none of my own trees, yet 

 their top branches were certainly injured. 



At Woodville, the residence of Jaihes Yates, Esq. within 

 a quarter of a mile of Salcombe, and close to the sea,is at 



* See page 175. 



