256 Observations upon the effects of Frost, 



and Bohea were killed at Redleaf. T. viridis was uninjured 

 at Bicton. 



Taxodium sinense proved hardy in the Society's Garden. 



New Zealand. 



Clianthus puniceus was generally destroyed ; at Bicton, a plant 

 against a wall, and 9 feet high, is reported to have been 

 killed ; even in the Glasnevin garden, although protected, it 

 died ; but it lived at Binstead, in the Isle of Wight, and at 

 Somerford, near Wolverhampton. 



Edwardsia microphylla, of which fine specimens against walls 

 existed in the Society's Garden, at Arundel, and elsewhere, 

 was generally killed ; but at Bicton and Carclew, at the latter 

 place in the open shrubbery, it was not at all affected. 

 E. grandiflora died at Dropmore, and in the Society's Garden, 

 where there was a very large plant, and even at Bicton ; but it 

 was undamaged at Carclew, at Belsay on the outside wall of a 

 conservatory, and Singleton, and it survived, though much 

 damaged, at Owston. At Sketty a standard was killed, but 

 those against a wall were uninjured, and one of the latter at 

 Penrice Castle, unprotected, flowered beautifully after the 

 winter. E. chrysophylla was killed on a south wall in the 

 Society's Garden, and at Bicton, but it was only killed to the 

 old wood at Claremont. 



Fuchsia excorticata survived at Bicton ; at Carclew it was killed 

 to the ground, but shot up again. 



Phormium tenax was killed near London, at Cambridge, in Hamp- 

 shire, and elsewhere ; but at Carclew, in the shrubbery, under 

 some large Scotch firs, and by the edge of a pond, in a kind 

 of swamp, where its roots were under water, this plant was 

 not in the least injured. 



