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Styrax grandifolium was killed in the Society's Garden, and the 

 other species were much injured there. 



Yucca. The species generally stood in most places without any 

 injury, even as far north as Doncaster; but at Redleaf many 

 large plants of Yucca gloriosa were cut down to the ground. 

 At Spofforth, the species suffered capriciously ; some plants 

 being killed to the ground, and others of the same species un- 

 harmed. Y. recurva was not hurt, though the stem of a plant 

 of that species, about 4 inches diameter, was destroyed near 

 the ground at Mitcham in Surrey in 1814. Y. gracilis was 

 killed in the Society's Garden and at Liverpool ; but it sus- 

 tained no damage at Sketty. 



Viburnum cassinpides was much injured in the Society's Garden. 



Himalaya Mountains. 



Abies Deodar a is reported by everybody to be quite hardy. At 

 Worksop Manor it was not even browned so much as the 

 Cedar of Lebanon. At Dropmore, there is a specimen 

 inarched on the larch, and planted out for 3 years in a very 

 exposed part of the grounds, where it is growing with great 

 vigour. A. Webbiana lost its leaves at Redleaf; was, in one 

 case, killed back to the old wood at Dropmore, otherwise 

 uninjured; was damaged beyond recovery in the Society's 

 Garden : one large plant at the latter place was killed out- 

 right. In Cornwall and Devon, it seems as hardy and valuable 

 as the silver fir. The plant at Carclew has never been the 

 least affected by cold. In the garden of the Rev. J. Garnier, 

 at Bishopstoke, in Hampshire, there is a plant from 10 to 

 12 feet high, which has even produced cones. It has never 

 been protected, and is in perfect health. Sir Oswald Mosley 

 also reports it uninjured at Rolleston; at Belsay, A. Mo- 



