By Mr. John Lindley. 



White Currants. 

 Black Currants. 



Esculent Vegetables. 



Rhubarb. 

 Potatoes. 

 Asparagus. 

 Peas (slightly). 



Upon considering the above list, it is impossible not to 

 observe the very unequal manner in which plants from 

 similar countries, or with similar physiological structure, were 

 affected by the frost. As it is not impossible that, by data of 

 the above nature, some light may be hereafter thrown upon 

 the mysterious connection which exists between temperature 

 and vegetation, it may be useful to add to this Report, such 

 remarks as, with the limited state of our knowledge, suggest 

 themselves. 



And, firstly, it is deserving of notice, that the same degree 

 of cold which was fatal to the Asparagus, a native of the 

 sandy coasts of this country, produced scarcely any effect 

 upon the foliage of the Gooseberry, Currant, Rose or Rasp- 

 berry, all inhabitants of our woods and thickets ; yet those 

 plants in their native places would be subject to the same 

 vicissitudes of temperature, and to the same degree of occa- 

 sional cold ; the young shoots of the Rose, at least, are more- 

 over as vascular as those of the Asparagus, and apparently 

 liable in the same degree to the action of frost. 



While the True Robinias, that is to say those plants which 

 have the Botanical characters of Robinia, strictly so called, 



