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to grd., recovering, 2. Lauras salicifolia, lost foliage and tips of 

 shoots, 2. Laurustinus, 2. Lavander, some, 1 (others unhurt)- 

 Lavandula spica, 1, 2. Lcycesteria formosa, 3. Ligustram lucidum, 

 young shoots kd., 3. Lonicera brachypoda, aureo-rcticulata, kd. to 

 grd., 2. Magnolia grandiflora, on wall, lost most of foliage, 3. 

 Moras alba, 1 ; M. nigra (Mulberry), young shoots kd., 3. Necta- 

 rines, on walls, 2. Pampas grass, 1, 2. Peaches, on walls, 2. Pau- 

 lownia imperialis, young shoots, kd., 3. Privet, 2. Quercus Ilex, 

 lost most of foliage, 3. Rhododendrons, Sikkim, a few, 1, 2, 3. 

 Robinia Pseud- Acacia, 3. Rosemary, 1, 2. Roses, Banksian, on wall, 

 kd. to grd., 2; China, common monthly, kd. to grd., 2 ; H. P.'s, 2, 

 3 ; Tea, on wall, including Marechal Niel, kd. to grd., but reco- 

 vering, 2. Ruscus racemosus, 2. Sambucus racemosa, 3. Sophora 

 japonica, 3. Spiraea Lindleyana, 2 ; S. Reevesiana, 2 ; S. pruni- 

 folia, lost young shoots, 2 ; S. Thunbergia, do., 2. Strawberries, 

 where exposed to morning sun, 2. Tritoma uvaria, 1, 2. Walnut, 

 two-thirds of last year's shoots kd., 2. Wistaria sinensis, 2. 



Note — The above by no means exhausts the lists of plants that 

 have suffered from the effects of the winter, 1879-80; but the 

 damage to others is of a comparatively trifling and temporary nature, 

 from which they will soon recover. 



Observations (General) — Vegetation in the autumn of 1878 was 

 in a thoroughly ripened state ; and, being also well protected by deep 

 snow during the severest of the frost, suffered comparatively little 

 injury. In the autumn of 1879, however, vegetation had already 

 suffered much from the cold and wet of the previous summer, and 

 was in the worst possible state to withstand the severities of the 

 winter. Frost set in early, and very little snow fell while it lasted 

 to protect the soft and badly-ripened growth of the last season, 

 which in many instances succumbed to less than the usual amount of 

 frost. Thus a good many trees of various kinds are observed with 

 an unusual number of dead points of their last season's growth, 

 arising, no doubt, from the severity of the frost acting on the half- 

 matured growth of last year. 



Obs. (Special) — Clematis, C. lanuginosa and others of the same 

 delicate strain were killed ; but all the C. Jackmanni tribe are per- 

 fectly uninjured. Conifers, these generally have not suffered at alfj 

 those introduced from Japan are particularly hardy, and withstand 

 severe frost better than our native plants; Cedrus Deodara lost many 



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