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Observations — Bedding Plants, such as Calceolarias, flowered well, 

 otherwise flower-gardening was almost a failure. Conifers, made good 

 growth, especially Cupressus Lambertiana (a fine specimen, 36 ft. 

 high, by 38 ft. diam') ; also Picea nobilis and P. Nordmanniana. 

 Common Laurels and Rhododendrons made very strong growths and 

 withstood the winter. I could perceive no injurious effects on other 

 shrubs. 



2. Maybole, Culzean Gardens — Mr. D. Murray.* 

 Min. Temp, and Date— Dec. 4th, 10°. 



Plants injured, 1879-80 — 8 (2), 4 (3) — Camellias, recovering, 

 3. Cornels, 2. Euonymus, sorts, 2. Fuchsias, old-established plants, 

 in open borders, kd. to grd., 2. Hydrangeas, 2. Laurel, Bay, 

 recovering, 3. Laurustinus, recovering, 3. Lonicera brachypoda 

 aureo-reticulata, 2. Myrtles, 2. Phormium tenax, 2. Tamarix, 2. 

 Veronicas, recovering, 3. 



Observations — Some of the above were quite unprepared to with- 

 stand such a severe winter, as they were green and in a growing 

 state when the frost set in, which has done more damage than 

 any winter for the last 20 years. 



1. Lanark — Dalziel, Bothwell Castle. — Mr. A. Turnbull. 



Gren. Char, of Soil — Various, but clay predominates. 



Alt. "and Exposure — 146 ft. ; exposed to W. 



Rainfall, 1879—28-65 ins. Av. since 1844, 29-63 ins. 



Date of Onset and Duration of Frost — Intense frost from Nov. 

 13th to Dec. 23rd. 



Min. Temps, and Dates — Dec. 4th, 2°: [Cambuslang, disi., 4 ms., 

 N.W. ; alt., 146 ft. ; Dec. 4th, 7° : Glasgow, dist., 8 ms., N.W. ; 

 alt., 190 ft. ; Dec. 4th, 14°-6]. 



Observations — Most of our tender shrubs were killed by the frost, 

 Dec. 24th, 1860, when the temp, fell to -11°. Since then we have 

 only grown plants upon which we can depend as being perfectly hardy. 

 Abies Douglasii is often regarded as a hardy, profitable timber tree ; 

 but out of 50 planted for trial, only one remains here quite healthy ; 

 while the others were killed or greatly injured by the frost of 1879- 

 80. The best tree was planted on a dry and rather rocky knoll 

 and is 40 ft. high, yet it was killed to within 8 feet of the ground. 



* Rep. on Temps, at Rl. Bot. Gard., Edinb , by J. Sadler, p. 23. 



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